While restoring her Hilton Head home after a brush with a hurricane, PI Bay Tanner reluctantly accepts bestselling true-crime writer Winston Wolfe as a client. Arrogant and secretive, Wolfe is researching the cold-case disappearance of reclusive millionaire Morgan Tyler Bell from his secluded private island off the South Carolina coast. Adding to the mystery, Bells personal assistant vanished as well. But what has Bays investigative antennae quivering is the apparent suicide at the time of Bells longtime housekeeper. After viewing the scene inside the millionaires abandoned mansion on Jericho Cay, Bay isnt so sure she shouldve taken the case.