For waitress and cub reporter Emma Graham, tragedy defines where she lives. Spirit Lake, La Porte, and Lake Noir have been held in thrall by intertwined crimes the murders of Mary-Evelyn Devereau, Rose Queen, and Fern Queen the supposed kidnapping of a four-month-old baby from the Belle Ruin hotel twenty years previously and, most recently, the attack on Emma. And with the arrival of an unexpected visitor and a drifter, it looks like the bad times have only begun...,
