"Who knows the secret of Bootleg Cove? "

Young widow Willie Douglas recently moved to remote, isolated Bootleg Cove on the Chesapeake Bay with her four-year-old son. Her plan to renovate and re-open an abandoned restaurant. Almost as soon as she arrived, a handyman showed up out of the blue, offering to help. Then Amanda and Sam, two apparently orphaned teenagers, came to her door in need of help and a place to stay.

But it s not just the sweltering heat that s wearing on Willie s already fragile emotions. Her mysterious handyman seems to know more than he s willing to say, Amanda and Sam are acting very strangely indeed, and Willie s beginning to realize that all three of her houseguests have more history with Bootleg Cove than she could ever have imagined. Willie is seeing too many things that she either can t explain or refuses to believe. But the most shocking revelation about Bootleg Cove is still to come "