A wedding under the lighthouse should have been the happiest night in Lilac Harbor.
Instead, it starts with a body at the garden steps.
Florist Rowan Finch is determined to give his best friends the most beautiful wedding Beacon Point Lighthouse Estate has ever seen—sea breeze, lantern glow, perfect flowers, and not a single murder in sight. Detective Cal Hart would like that too. After everything they’ve survived together, he and Rowan are finally real. Steady. Serious. Dangerous in all the right ways. Which is exactly why the future suddenly feels so terrifying.
When Eli Mercer’s powerful uncle is found dead on rehearsal night, the wedding weekend turns into a suspect pool wrapped in old-money manners, inheritance drama, and family resentment sharp enough to draw blood. As Rowan and Cal dig deeper, they uncover something far worse than one ugly family crime: a hidden trust clause tied to the same Harbor Renewal conspiracy that has been stalking Lilac Harbor from the beginning. This murder isn’t only about money. It’s about control—over the estate, the town, and who gets to decide what survives.
While Rowan tries to hold the wedding together through proof pages, seating charts, revised schedules, and a guest list full of liars, Cal is hiding a life-changing Boston promotion he still hasn’t told Rowan about. And when Rowan overhears enough to realize history may be circling back for them, the case stops being the only thing threatening the weekend. The closer they get to the truth, the more they’re forced to face the real question waiting underneath the murder: not whether they love each other, but whether they’re finally ready to build a future that doesn’t ask either of them to be less.
With a gorgeous summer-coastal setting, sizzling chemistry, wedding-weekend tension, found family warmth, sharp banter, and a deeply satisfying forever payoff, BEST MAN, DEAD MAN is the unforgettable final book in the Lavender Lane Mysteries series.
Escape to Lilac Harbor one last time and fall into a lighthouse wedding murder mystery where the secrets are lethal, the romance is worth the risk, and forever is finally on the line.
You’ll love this if you like…
MM second-chance romance that grows into forever
lighthouse weddings, seaside glamour, and summer mystery vibes
cozy murder mysteries with layered family secrets
smart clues hidden in schedules, paper trails, and social choreography
found family, emotional payoff, and one final public choice
