Raegan O'Rourke is a former investigative reporter with a secret: she can touch things and see events that have happened in the past. She's just used her ability to solve a twenty-five-year-old cold case in the northwoods of Minnesota when she's called home to the Twin Cities to rescue her father, who has been abducted from his driveway in broad daylight by her family's sworn enemies. The Fausts believe Raegan's mother is their key to fame and fortune - and they will stop at nothing to have her.

After she arrives in River Junction, Minnesota and frees her father from the Fausts, Raegan  teams up with local police officer Jesse Hendricks - she with her ability, he with a burning ambition to become a detective - to investigate a mystery that has vexed the residents of this small northern suburb for eleven years.

But when the feud between the Ainsleys and the Fausts escalates, her forbidden relationship with Nicholas Faust crumbles, and she discovers an unexpected connection to the case she's investigating, Raegan quickly learns that secrets are corrosive - and everything is not always as it seems. Can she solve the case and keep her mother out of the Fausts' clutches? Or will she fall victim to her own vices once again?