War correspondent Sue-Ann McKeown returns to her home town after a crushing six months of reporting in Iraq, giving up her high-profile job in Virginia and breaking up with her boyfriend at the same time. But a quiet, settled life isn't in the cards for Sue-Ann. Even her new job with a small-town newspaper seems almost too much to handle, especially when a mysterious pirate radio station points her toward a series of ritual animal sacrifices, a ghostly white horse, a lovely woman, and a secret para-military enclave hidden deep in the woods of North Florida.