Tessa straightened the pillows on the couch and reached for the handle on the vacuum cleaner. She’d missed a week of work. She’d sent Maddy and Julia back to The Lighthouse Inn three days ago. Janey had been staying in the cottage with her, and they’d been talking more and more about anything and everything.
“No more secrets,” she murmured to herself as she switched on the vacuum and kept cleaning. She loved having everything in its place, and putting the cottage back together now that Janey had decided she could return to the mansion in Wainscott would allow her to think more clearly.
They’d made it through the couple of days the press had camped out on the road and beach across from the cottage. They’d all been interviewed singly by the police. Tessa had been present when Maddy had tur
