Young women and girls are disappearing, and bodies start showing up in the desert around the old Blood Mountain hotel... Sales Director, Rachel Ryan, who never could mind her own business, decides to investigate at the request of an elderly friend of one of the women. And, this time, Deputy Tucker doesn't mind as his case is going nowhere, despite the many and varied suspects. Rachel quickly gets in way over her head, as usual, and Tucker takes her off the case. Undaunted, Rachel charges off on her own, determined to find the killer, especially after she discovers one of the bodies herself. Another body is discovered by Jared Johnson, a retired detective from Detroit, and Rachel immediately enlists his help in solving the cold-case murder of her parents in Grand Rapids more than a decade ago. To make things even more complicated, Alex Tucker suddenly swoops back into Rachel's life-just as she finds herself falling for Buddy-and Rachel is forced to make a life-changing decision...if she survives the murder investigation.