Waiting for an inheritance can get boring. Until a cult gets involved... Nick Barrett is in Charleston awaiting news of his inheritance. His elderly spinster friends, proud antique shop proprietors, ask him to investigate the ownership of a mysterious painting once owned by Agnes Larrabee. It seems like it's a typical, easy mystery but nothing ever comes easy to Nick. The path leads him to a street-savvy urchin nicknamed Angel and to a woman who is trying to rescue her sick child from the ruthless leader of a cult. And that's just the start of the troubling mysteries.