On the day Dee Poore announces the closing of her rehab camp, ending its ten-year operation, she accepts an invitation to speak at a health forum in Fairchance. There she meets an old acquaintance, Natalie Burke, and accepts the offer to serve as temporary reporter at the local newspaper. Soon Dee is launched into more intrigue than she anticipated, with a murder, a fatal accident, and a possible kidnap victim, all under investigation. Not the least of Dee's concerns, however, is her own safety, threatened by a persistent caller who ends his brief message with, "Ashes to ashes, Dee Major Poore."