Retirement is a bitch. Between ravine walks with her pugs and liquid lunches with her new friend Mallory, ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn can’t stop working, and she’s immediately drawn to the suspicious death of a local teen that may have chilling consequences for her own family.

A fully-clothed fourteen-year-old boy is found drowned in a swimming pool. None of his friends is talking, and Brigid fears the boy’s death could be the first of many. Enter Brigid’s clever but emotionally damaged niece Gemma Kate. Gemma Kate comes to live with her aunt Brigid following the death of her mother and immediately connects with a local boy who knew the drowned teen. Gemma Kate’s arrival also coincides with a series of ghastly poisonings.

As she tries to get to the bottom of a series of allegedly accidental deaths and increasingly gruesome occurrences at home, Brigid realizes that maybe this time she’s let the darkness inside the only place she ever felt safe. Sometimes death is closer than you think.