When Sloan McCandless tangles with an F-5, the result is a supermodel face and brain damage. Can she trade a songwriting career for crime solving?
Sloan McCandless's near-fatal crash leaves her with a face for men's magazines and damage to her right temporal lobe, the seat of creativity, chiefly, her first love, music. When Hank Overton, the new Sheriff of Davidson County, drafts her to work a murder case in the town that shunned her, she must develop her left-brain powers: strategy, logic, and solving for the unknown.
The case plunges Sloan deep into a strangely dark, backwoods community full of fear and prejudice, drawing her into the lives of everyone involved, including the murder victim's husband, a prominent man in the community and Hank's best friend.
Even as Sloan tries to escape her creative bent by burying herself in detective work, her life and Hank Overton's become inextricably linked. She finds she is destined to rescue him when no one else can, and together, they set about solving a case capturing nationwide attention. Sloan falls headlong into the life of a crime investigator, takes on a new identity, but she's unable to escape the long oak branches of family, old flames and new, and her own history steeped in the dirty secrets of two small towns halfway across the globe from each other.