Annis Ward Jackson features the world-famous Appalachian Trail in this fifth book in the Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series. Convinced by a friend to join a women's hiking club for a day on the AT, Rachel has what she considers the bad luck to be the one who finds the mutilated body of a young girl that has been dumped just off the trail. Clues are practically nonexistent even after the corpse has been identified as a local high school girl who was supposed to be on spring break in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The victim's mother persuades the reluctant detective to try and find out what happened. Although she feels lost without her best friend and lover, Detective Robert Barnett, Myers ploughs ahead while she gets to know a newcomer to the area, a video ad technician. Myers becomes totally immersed in the crime and, although the motive eludes her, she soon turns up several suspects. It could be the moonshiner, the poacher, or the boyfriend. Or it could be someone much closer to Rachel Myers.