Winter hits Wren Lake Campground before the season has emptied, and the storm closes the roads and cuts off any call for help.
Late campers and half of Miller's Creek end up under one roof, including a widower with a secret he has spent a year preparing to share, a sharp-tongued woman who will not explain why she is there, a quiet man far too interested in old land records,
and a young couple who flinch whenever a car passes.
Josie Marlowe has learned to trust her instincts about people, yet the storm takes something from them that has nothing to do with the mystery, and grief leaves her unsure which instinct to follow.
Buried in an old suitcase is the proof she has waited a year to find: who reached into her family's past, and who has been trying, quietly and at great personal cost, to make it right.
Snowed in and running out of time, Josie must finish what a stranger started and lay her great-aunt Idella to rest properly before the thaw, and before the truth reaches someone with everything to lose.
