Clare Kimball is a critically acclaimed sculptress. But success cannot make her forget the half-remembered nightmares that have plagued her since childhood.

These phantoms of the past have drawn her home to Maryland, to the small town where she grew up and where her father died in circumstances never really explained.

Emmitsboro is just as Clare remembered - the same familiar faces, the same chatty gossip over the counter at the local diner. Nothing much has changed - except Cameron Rafferty. Once the high school bad boy, he's landed on the right side of the law and is now the town sheriff. Clare finds herself falling for Cam's charms all over again.

But the past Clare wants to lay to rest has risen up with a vengeance, rocking the town in the form of a brutal murder...