Leaving her treasured Virginia home behind, Ariel Custer heads north with warrior-like determination to make a way for herself. But what she stumbles on is murder.
When three teenagers disappear in the redwood forest of the Pacific northwest, private detective John Jeffers is hired by the families to find out why the local police seem to be covering things up. Jeffers travels to the shore town of Coastal Green to investigate...and learns of a terrible secret in the process.