First a foot, now a hand-what body part is next? When her puppy finds a severed hand on a walking trail, Glory Harper is positive the signet ring belongs to a missing college professor who caused a lot of trouble around town before his disappearance. Her insatiable desire to solve the mystery of his murder finds her in over her head with a community filled with secrets, blackmail, and arson. With her sister Jane overwhelmed by trouble with her fiancé and an arson fire in her home, Glory latches onto an unlikely partner, and soon feels as though she's stepped into an episode of the Twilight Zone-where nothing is as it appears, and danger lurks around every corner . . . Including from her boyfriend, Detective Rick Spencer.