Clancy is obliged to return to her hometown in rural Virginia to investigate the mysterious deaths at a local nursing home facility. The return to the place of her birth and early life forces her to resume her adversarial relationship with her mother Rachel. Too many long-time friends of Rachel Jo Evans are dying. She wants her daughter to find out what’s going on. Clancy calls upon Rosey, Sam, and Rogers to investigate the strange deaths while she tries to elude the hired killers out to stop her from discovering the decades-old events that set these killings in motion.