It\'s been five years since investigator Jessamyn Jakes left her life as a prostitute to start her detective agency, J.
A furiously paced plot with compelling characters make this debut novel a must read..
And...of course, there\'s a shipwreck and a missing treasure.
Together with her adopted daughter-and escaped slave-Sarah, Jessamyn unravels Suzanne\'s disappearance all the while uncovering other mysteries along the way.
When Suzanne-her former lover and fellow prostitute-goes missing, Jessamyn is drawn into a mystery that goes beyond the raunchy, shipbuilding town that was 1854 Portsmouth, NH-all the way from the antebellum south to the Isles of Shoals.
Jakes Discreet Inquiries.
It\'s been five years since investigator Jessamyn Jakes left her life as a prostitute to start her detective agency, J