Elara Kincaid

Bellefond Series

The two Pitons of St. Lucia silhouetted against a teal-to-purple Caribbean dusk

Bellefond Series

Everyone on this island tells Seraphine the truth. That is how she finds the lies.

The Story

Five islands. One laundered fortune traveling on a passport for a man who never existed. And a journalist who keeps being handed the truth, because on these islands the truth is cheaper than a lie and twice as dangerous.

Seraphine Toussaint came home to St. Lucia to bury her sister Marise and stayed to finish the story that drowned her. Across five books, one Caribbean island each, she follows a citizenship-by-investment laundering spine from a banana coast to a Carnival crowd to an offshore great house, and back to the water where it started. Each book stands on its own, but a single thread runs through all five. First person, past tense, noir-leaning, and rooted hard in place.

The Books

  1. Saltwater — St. Lucia. A staged suicide on the banana coast, a single ping from a dead sister's phone, and the case that pulls Seraphine home. October 6, 2026.
  2. The Interior — Dominica. A disappearance inside the passport-vetting machine, traced up into the rainforest interior and Kalinago Territory amid the hurricane rebuild. October 20, 2026.
  3. Last Lap — Trinidad. A mas-band financier killed in the middle of a Carnival crowd, where oil money and Port of Spain politics try to bury the body before the music stops. November 3, 2026.
  4. Blue Money — Barbados. An accidental death in the great houses of offshore finance that cracks the whole wash wide open. November 17, 2026.
  5. Deep Water — St. Lucia. The reckoning: the truth about Marise, the man at the head of the machine, and the price of the comfortable lie. December 1, 2026.

Content Notes

This series contains murder, drowning and the death of a sibling, financial crime and corruption, violence, references to economic and colonial exploitation, and strong language. It is crime and mystery for readers who want a vivid sense of place, a recurring protagonist, and a story you can step into anywhere.

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Bellefond launches October 6, 2026, with a new island every two weeks through December 1. Subscribe to be the first to know the moment each book goes live.