Lighthouse Shift Card: A Cozy Mystery

Lighthouse Point is under renovation, and Salvage Bay has invented a whole new language for control: badges, zones, checklists, key rings—and logs that "e;don't match shift coverage."e;Boatwright Maren Cole only goes up the hill to help her girlfriend, Simone, keep a catering contract running. But the site safety inspector, Owen Brackett, is asking the wrong questions out loud—about access discrepancies, missing log lines, and who was here when the paperwork says they weren't.Then, during kickoff week chaos, Owen dies beneath the scaffolding. Maren sees what the site wants to call "e;construction risk"e; and what her boatyard instincts recognize as something else: hardware that didn't fail… it was pulled. Detective Jonah Pike arrives, documents the joint, and makes it plain—this isn't an accident. It's a crime scene.As Kendra Wyle tries to "e;keep moving"e; and reconcile the records, Maren and Jonah race the clock to preserve what Salvage Bay is best at losing: the truth on paper. Hidden behind insulation inside a wall, Maren finds a laminated artifact from the lighthouse's old rules—a shift card listing coverage windows, duties, initials… and a chilling line labeled LIGHT OFF WINDOW with precise times beside it.In a town where keys outlast people, one card can expose who had access, who had authority—and who used both to make sure Owen never got to pause the site.