After purchasing a run-down nineteenth-century carriage house on Boston's North Shore, Tess Haviland finds a skeleton inside the basement wall that mysteriously vanishes when she brings her neighbor, Andrew Thorne, over to see it.

Kara Galway has moved to Texas hoping to be able to focus on her career as a defense attorney and to have time with her brother and his family. However, fate changes things when her best friend shows up suddenly at her home saying that she is scared about the suspicious way in which her father died. Allyson's father was Connecticut governor Mike Parisi.