College textbook editor Breeda Flynn inherited an inactive bed and breakfast on Martha's Vineyard. She enjoys the solitude, her only company the cat who had belonged to her deceased aunt. Along with the house and feline, Breeda's world is filled with memories of events which happened sixteen years earlier, including the disappearance of her first love and the brutal death of his mother. When TV producer Joe Pederson asks to stay for a brief time at her home while researching and writing a book about those incidents, Bree is not happy about the intrusion. Reluctantly, she agrees to the stay.