Southern lawyer and young widow Jordan Taylor has just lost her beloved grandfather, Ed Goforth. She returns to the brilliant green forests and crashing waterfalls of Transylvania County, North Carolina to settle his estate, but she finds more than grief in Ed's papers and past. Ed's death was no accident. Who of the many people his life touched and troubled would take the old man's life? And why does no one around Toxaway Falls want to know the truth? Jordan will find it harder than she imagined to uncover Ed's mistakes and to reconcile his past with her memories of the grandfather she loved so dearly.