Tato série se ponoří do temných zákoutí lidské psychiky, kde se napětí mísí s osobními dramaty. Každý příběh odhaluje složité vztahy a skrytá tajemství, která spojují zdánlivě nesouvisející postavy. Čtenáři se mohou těšit na napínavé zápletky, kde minulost neúprosně zasahuje do přítomnosti a pronásleduje hrdiny až do jejich nejtemnějších okamžiků. Jedná se o poutavé vyšetřování, které zkoumá následky dávných rozhodnutí.
Summoned to identify the trussed-up, naked body of a woman found amongst a pile of garbage on Blue Avenue, Florida businessman William Byrd recognizes the victim as Belinda Mabry, the girl with whom he spent a passionate summer 25 years before. Determined to find out what happened to the woman he once loved, Byrd must revisit his own troubled past.
When one of her students is found dead, English teacher Lillian Turner and her husband Johnny are drawn into the subsequent investigation - despite being warned off the case by Lillian's brother, homicide detective Daniel Turner. Just what is Daniel's connection to the dead girl? What does he know that he's not telling Lillian?
Homicide detective Daniel Turner was never able to forget the unsolved case: the disappearance of Amon Jakobsen 18 years ago. Now he has returned to the isolated house on Black Hammock Island following reports of a disturbance. Is this his chance to find out what really happened to Amon - and will he be in time to stop history repeating itself?