When a best-selling crime novelist suddenly dies, her daughter, Stacy Riggins, goes to her mother's home on Tybee Island to settle her estate. While there, Stacy learns things about her mother's writings that point to unsettling truths about her own life -- ones she's chosen to ignore, a dark secret she's kept buried, and darker secrets that have been kept hidden from her. Soon, Stacy is caught up in problems that rival her mother's darkest stories.