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After The Rain: Part One
Paperback
Series: Ryder Talon Stone, Pi, Book 23
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 27 2026
Pages: 478
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Hurricane Ian is moving toward Southwest Florida, and Ryder Stone and Katherine Grace are already running out of time.
The death of Jason Wortham should be a single investigation. Instead, the circumstances surrounding his final days begin reaching backward into a decades-old disappearance, disputed property records, and a part of Englewood's history that has never fit together as cleanly as the surviving documents suggest.
At first, Ryder has possibilities rather than answers.
Then the connections begin appearing.
Names surface where they should not. Records contradict one another in small but important ways. Old events suddenly matter to a present-day death. And some of the evidence Ryder finds seems almost too helpful-as though someone wants him looking in a particular direction.
That possibility changes everything.
Outside the investigation, Ian continues strengthening. Evacuation orders spread. Businesses close. Residents board their homes and leave. Roads fill with people trying to get away from the coast. Government offices and ordinary sources of information become harder to reach precisely when Ryder and Katherine need them most.
Soon the landscape itself may become evidence that no longer exists.
Ryder knows a convincing story is not necessarily a true one. Katherine knows that when someone wants investigators to believe a particular version of events, the most dangerous clue may be the one that fits perfectly.
Together, they begin separating what actually belongs to Jason Wortham's death from what may have been deliberately placed in its path.
But every answer pushes the investigation further into the past.
What happened years ago? Why does it matter now? What did Jason discover before he died? And who else understood the connection before Ryder began looking?
As the pressure drops and the wind rises, the investigation becomes a race against something no investigator can interview, delay, or control. Hurricane Ian is approaching Englewood, threatening homes, roads, records, evidence, and the physical places where the answers may still exist.
Once the storm arrives, there may be no ordinary crime scene left.
No ordinary neighborhood.
No guarantee that what Ryder can examine today will survive until tomorrow.
And someone may be counting on exactly that.
After the Rain - Part One is a suspenseful Ryder Talon Stone mystery set against the approach of Hurricane Ian, where a present-day death collides with an old disappearance, disputed history, and evidence that may be revealing the truth-or directing Ryder toward the version someone wants him to believe.
The hurricane is almost there.
Before it arrives, Ryder must determine which pieces of the mystery were uncovered by his investigation-and which were deliberately left behind for him to find.
Because after Ian makes landfall, the difference between destroyed evidence and hidden evidence may disappear with everything else.
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