The police said it was an accident-a late-night crash on a fog-drenched Mississippi highway that took the life of Robin Spinney's deputy sheriff husband, Mac. Two years later Robin stumbles across his journal-and the frantic final entry-and she is certain Mac's death was no accident. Terrified, she goes to the only person she can trust with the damning evidence. In less than fwenty-four hours he, too, is dead. Convinced she is in grave danger, Robin flees to Serenity, Maine, and attemps to build a new life for herself as Annie Kendall.