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A Seraphine Toussaint Novel • Bellefond Book One
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A fisherman is found drowned off the Bellefond coast, and the police call it suicide. Journalist Seraphine Toussaint knows the water too well to believe them.
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Home on St. Lucia to bury her sister Marise, Seraphine pulls the one thread no one wants touched: a gleaming resort, a passport for a man who never existed, and money that arrives clean and leaves dirty. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that her sister’s death was no accident either.
The Bellefond series: Saltwater (Oct 6) • The Interior (Oct 20) • Last Lap (Nov 3) • Blue Money (Nov 17) • Deep Water (Dec 1). Five novels of Caribbean crime, releasing through autumn 2026.
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