Home and recovering from a vacation in the UK where a murder mystery weekend turned deadly, novelist Sarah Medlar, her beloved niece Kate and their dear friend Jack are looking to get back to their normal lives. And when a stranger is found dead on their friend s property they vow not to get involved. However, the sheriff just left for a long-awaited vacation and he deputized Jack to run things in his absence. As Jack begins an official investigation, Sarah and Kate learn that Kate s mother has arrived in Lachlan unannounced. Sarah realizes that some dark family secrets are about to come to light and she is terrified that Kate will never forgive her for keeping the truth from her. Kate has always believed her father died when she was a child but the truth is Randal Medlar has been in prison for decades and his sister Sarah s testimony helped convict him. Now, Randal has been released and he wants to get to know his daughter. But where Randal goes, trouble follows and soon the bodies ar