Fired as an exotic dancer, Tori Marsh seeks payback by stealing the club owner's shipment of illegal emeralds bound for the black market. Regret somes too late. With more than one vicious criminal after her, Tori Flees Hamilton and heads north. Her car breaks down in Mechanic Falls and she calls on her skills as a mortuary cosmetologist to survive. Twin embalmers promise her safe harbour and to keep her secrets. But, do they have their own agenda? Erik Gerard, the enigmatic bartender at the strip club, witnesses Tori's theft and follows the gems. While the hunt for Tori and the gems intensifies, he wrestles with an impossible choice - nab the gems and leave Tori to her fate, or protect her and chance losing a fortune. Relying on her wits to survive won't work for Tori this time. Not before the men pursuing her, or the ghostly shadow in the casket room, force her back to the dangerous streets. Can Tori and Erik set aside their suspicions and unite to evade the danger? Will they even live to feel safe again?