Dating Can Be Deadly

When a small-town romance festival turns deadly, the only match made is between murder and a forty-year-old secret.

Sho Tanaka is trying to keep his head down. Ten months sober and shadowing a patient advocate to rebuild his career, the last thing the former ICU nurse needs is his best friend’s chaotic dating festival dragging him back into danger. But when a bestselling romance author publicly implodes onstage and is found dead hours later—killed with a centerpiece Sho helped build—his hard-won peace shatters along with the crime scene.

Levi Blue is determined to put Bluebonnet Hills on the map. With a looming election and his father’s haunting legacy weighing on him, the former tween TV detective has staked his mayoral reputation on a romance-themed festival to revitalize the town. But when his flagship event produces a body instead of a love connection, he pulls his reluctant partner back into the investigation before the scandal buries his political future.

As Sho fights to protect the people closest to him without losing the fragile life he’s rebuilding, a stolen manuscript, a vanished teenager from 1986, and a car submerged in the Guadalupe River begin to connect in ways no one saw coming. And as Levi’s television instincts lead them deeper into the town’s buried past, a second death suggests someone will do anything to keep old secrets underwater.

Can Sho and Levi swipe right on the truth before their perfect match is a body bag?