Three longtime friends take their annual vacation to Ocracoke Island, a quaint village at the southernmost tip of North Carolina's Outer Banks. Aleta (the artist) and Kate (the writer) both intend to make it a working vacation. Sarah (the businesswoman) plans to enjoy long days of relaxing on the beach, reading, and rest. But when Sarah stumbles across a message in an old wine bottle that has washed ashore, she is unwillingly drawn into a compelling Depression-era murder mystery. She's found a previously undiscovered clue revealing who killed two innocent girls - and then works hard to find out what exactly took place all those years ago Buffalo City, a 'ghost town' in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, was once a thriving community of thousands of people and home to a prosperous logging industry. Today the site sits unrecognizable, quietly absorbed back into the swampy lowcountry that conceals all its secrets. At the heart of this mystery is Virgil Timmons, who claims to be a good man caught in a bad situation. Is he the innocent that he makes himself out to be? Or was he actually deeply involved in the murders of two men and the disappearance of two young girls? Take this Outer Banks vacation with Sarah, Aleta and Kate and discover the clues they find; then make your own decision about Mr. Virgil Timmons.