Amy Lee is a thirty-three year old ER physician who left her island home after the drowning death of a close friend following high school graduation. Now, fifteen years later, she returns to find her father suffering from a life-threatening heart attack.
While visiting the island, she also discovers the body of her high school friend, floating in the ocean, whom she thought had died. Worse still, her brother has been arrested for his murder. Promising to find the real killer, she embarks on an investigation.
Hampering her efforts to find him, are her father’s deteriorating health, her emerging attraction for her father’s doctor, the efforts of the Chief of Police to rekindle their high school romance and the number of island residents who might have wanted her friend dead.
As the case against each of the suspects begins to break down, Amy is left with the emerging suspicion that one of her former friends might actually be the murderer. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more she finds her own life in danger.
A Wave of Change is a cozy mystery which introduces a new heroine, Amy Lee to readers. She has been described as a strong, independent woman who has never lost her love for her native island but who struggles to balance her professional life with her desire to have a family.