Skink by Carl Hiaasen (2014) Alfred A. Knopf 

The Governor is back as a driving force in the rescue of the narrator’s cousin.  She’s been online in chat rooms and has fallen for a guy’s line.  So she claims to be heading off early to check out her new boarding school and really leaves with the guy.  Her cousin doesn’t believe her, so he gets on the internet and realizes she’s simply gone.  The school has no early check-in, it’s closed.  While pondering this, he goes to the beach and checks on turtle nests – something he and his cousin did regularly.  When he sees a straw sticking out of one, he pulls it out, only to get startled when a rough looking man bursts out of the sand.  They were doing the same thing, making sure poachers weren’t stealing turtle eggs.  The governor decides to help find his cousin.