Chapter 30: Mandy Sowden Takes the Initiative

The sea breeze carried a salty dampness as it swept away the heat hanging over Southern Newhaven Avenue. A three-deck luxury yacht rested quietly at its private berth in Newhaven Bay. Its streamlined, snow-white hull gleamed with a cold, expensive metallic sheen beneath the berth's spotlights. The toy Troy Greaves had sold to River Lyson stretched more than eighty feet from bow to stern. The upper deck held an open-air bar and a temperature-controlled hot tub. Down below were a mahogany-paneled...