Shadows on the Sand by Gayle Roper, is a Christian fiction romance suspense novel. After seventeen years of living with an alcoholic mother, and one abusive relationship after another, Carrie Carter took her young sister and made a life for them in Seaside New Jersey.

She ends up becoming a small business owner of a café in Seaside; she becomes attracted to a man who is a regular at the café, former cop Greg Barnes, who is also recovering from his own skeletons in his past.

Her dishwasher gets murdered, and a young waitress at the café disappears, which gets Greg Barnes involved in to help Carrie solve these two mysteries.