A sea-stained diary.
A girl found near the tide pools.
A name Harbor Point was never meant to remember.
Former FBI archivist Evelyn "Evie" Hart is finally trying to run Harbor House as a real coastal inn. But when Ledger, the inn's highly opinionated gray cat, drags an old diary from a forgotten sea chest, Evie finds a line she cannot ignore:
If they ask about the girl in the tide pool, tell them she was never mine to lose.
The diary points to the summer of 1974, when a young woman named Miriam Vail found a frightened child near the East Cove tide pools. Officially, the child was Charlotte Whitcomb, the beloved daughter of a wealthy summer family.
But the girl said otherwise.
I am not Charlotte.
As Evie follows the trail through old maps, hidden rooms, altered records, a shell bracelet, and a locked boathouse, she uncovers a secret that changed one child's life forever.
A mother was silenced.
A name was stolen.
And a powerful Harbor Point family made sure the truth disappeared with the tide.
With help from Sheriff Caleb Reed, Nora Bell, Pippa Lane, and one very suspicious cat, Evie must uncover what really happened to Lucy May Mallory before another generation inherits the lie.
The Diary by the Sea is Book 3 in The Harbor House Mysteries, a coastal cozy mystery series featuring cold cases, small-town secrets, old diaries, hidden family truths, a clever female sleuth, a Maine guesthouse, and mysteries where every room has a story.
