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Dylan cocked his head. “Listen.”

Amid the waves crashing on the rocks came the tinny sound of a ringing phone. He took two steps closer to the low metal barrier around the edge of the overlook. “Dial again.”

With a shaky finger Mia punched the button to redial. The phone rang again, the ocean breeze snatching the sound so that it seemed to surround her.

Dylan dropped to his knees, skimming the light from his flashlight along the ledge of rock. “It’s there, just below the ledge.”

He flattened to his belly and army-crawled toward the edge.

The knots that had been forming in Mia’s stomach the minute she heard the disembodied phone ringing cinched tighter. “Be careful.”

Dylan scooted forward another few inches and then swore.

Clutching her sweater around her trembling body, Mia shuffled to the edge of the precipice. “What is it, Dylan?”

Her gaze followed the beam of his light as it tripped down the vicious rocks. White foam rushed in and swirled around the rocks and something else…a body.