Cera Raines is a nobody. She knows it. She's always known it. The only thing special about her is her fiery, red hair that earned her the nickname. She knows she will never do anything that gets her picture on the front page of the town's local newspaper. In the small, Southern town of Ward, South Carolina, she runs a bookstore for an eccentric, world traveler, something she has never wanted to be. After a lifetime of being uprooted by her vagabond mother, she wanted nothing more out of life than a place to call her hometown. She loves the predictable life she has carved out for herself in Ward. She knows everything she will do each and every day, and she wants it to stay that way. Now that Cera has everything she wanted, there's just one more thing to make her life complete, a family to share it with. Unfortunately, her fiance doesn't feel the same way. In walks Kyle Preston, the famous mystery writer suffering from writer's block. He needs a muse and finds what he's looking for in Cera. Her predictable life will never be the same again as the two of them get tangled up in an unsolved case involving a real-life mystery. And as the clock ticks, they must discover the secret in an abandoned house before time runs out for both of them."