A thriller about money, trust and the people who want to believe
Count to Six Hundred is Aaron’s second novel, published in October 2026, one week after A Sea Without Witnesses.
Set on Larkspur Point, a wealthy waterfront enclave in New England, it follows a charming newcomer who arrives with a Bentley, a seventy-foot yacht called Second Chance, and an offer to his new neighbours: eighteen percent a year, paid like clockwork.
The story is told through the people drawn into his orbit. There’s Evelyn Ashford, the old-money neighbour whose family fortune quietly ran out years ago. There’s Nina Calloway, the wife who has everything she ever wanted and a growing list of questions. And there’s a teenage daughter digging into a death in Ohio that nobody wants to talk about. On the last night of summer, a party aboard the yacht ends with State Police divers recovering a body from beneath the dock.
New money. Old secrets. Debts that always come due.
The book brings together two of Aaron’s long-running interests, boats and investing, and turns them into a domestic thriller about fraud, desperation and how easily people talk themselves into believing a good story.
Hardcover · 321 pages · 6 × 9 in · ISBN 9781291482515
