Clare and Axel: Contemporary Cozy Mystery in California (Unabridged‪)‬

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.