Clare and Axel: Contemporary Cozy Mystery in California

A girl with a canister of pepper spray. A guy with an odd recurring dream. A tiny colony of nervous California sea lions.

They all come together in Dana Point Harbor...

Author's Note:

A random and seemingly irrelevant question totally inspired me to write this short story. "If the characters [from my historical novel The Legacy of the Marshall Cousins] lived now in California, what would they be like?"

I was at Dana Point Harbor. A sea lion was loitering in the water. My imagination ran wild. So did Clare.