Jon Burke's background database suddenly shows a legal charge that threatens his reputation and his professional position. He is devastated to learn that there is little he can do personally to clear his name. It is winter in the Door County Peninsula. The summer tourists have left to go back to their jobs and the locals are left to relax and take some time off from the summer tourist trade. Four young people have moved into a stately old house in Sturgeon Bay. They are ambitious and bent on becoming rich. They are talented but one of them, through his cyber-hacking, violates a basic tenet of the group and attracts a violent visitor who arrives to avenge a hack of his boss's account. The visitor brings savagery to the community and Bailey Welch brings her expertise to the case.