Wealthy Pamela Webbon and Irene Stenson are best friends until one night during the summer after high school, after being dropped off at her home by Pamela, Irene walks into her kitchen to find her parents dead in what is later ruled as a murder-suicide. Irene flees her northern Californian town, but when, seventeen years later, Pamela sends her a cryptic email asking her for help, Irene is inevitably drawn back in. However, enlightenment is far from reach when she returns only to find her former best friend dead from a supposed drug overdose, and plenty of covered-up secrets involving Pamela’s father, a powerful senator campaigning for presidency who may or may not have been responsible for Irene’s parents’ deaths. There’s also ex-Marine turned lodge-owner Luke Danner who helps Irene investigate the mystery surrounding Pamela’s death and who may just prove to be something more. This well-paced page-turner is full of surprises to keep readers guessing until its thrilling conclusion.