Callie Padget thinks she's leaving behind her days of uncovering mysteries and diving head-first into danger when she becomes the Outer Banks Bookshop's newest clerk. But the ex-journalist soon realises you cannot simply run away from mystery. When a mysterious fall at a lighthouse triggers Callie's memories of a similar event, she is drawn into a deadly web of secrets. Can Callie wrestle her past and forge a new future? Or will the mysteries of the Outer Banks draw her back into jeopardy?