Janet Wright left tiny Graylee, Georgia, at age five, when her mother fled a destructive marriage. Now forty and reinventing herself aft er a failed engagement, Janet returns as the sole inheritor of her recently murdered father's valuable estate. Life should be easy, but she can't resist pulling at the threads of the apparently open-and-shut case. Before long, she finds herself tangled in Graylee's web of secrets, lies, and scandals-and in fear for her own life.