In 1990, Dana Blades, retired history professor, and her childhood Amish friend, Fannie Byler, solved the murder of the local Amish schoolteacher. It is now over ten years later and the two women find themselves embroiled in a series of fires, explosions, threats, and the suspicious death of a close friend in the usually tranquil village of Solitude. Once again, the two collaborate to determine what sinister forces are at work in their community as they come to grips with personal issues that threaten to overwhelm them. Second in a series.