Book II of the Series of The Ellery Sisters brings in new characters as the youngest daughter, Penny, deals with the death of her husband. Penny Ellery Calderon, the youngest sister, finds her world torn apart forcing her to seek out answers to the bad luck that seems to follow her whenever she attempts to find happiness. After years of travelling around the world, Penny's husband is killed throwing her into a depression. Convinced that she is responsible for her husband's death, she decides to go home to her sisters when the ship stops at the small town on the coast of Virginia. Grieving, Penny is thrown into her husband's past and an inheritance that changes her life.