Sweet Cove’s claim to fame should be its warm breezes and coastal charm. Not a bookstore with a murder problem. Fresh from FBI training, security analyst Grace Jordan returns home armed with cutting-edge knowledge in cybercrime and counterterrorism. But not even her enhanced skills can shake the shadow of the last murder that rocked the small town, or the mobsters who orchestrated it. Still, with only two town murders in decades—granted, both at her aunt Lyla's bookstore—surely the odds favor a peaceful homecoming. That hope shatters when Madame LaRue—the enigmatic Cajun mystic from Lyla's psychic nights— delivers a chilling warning that makes Grace's analytical mind spin. Before she can dismiss the fortune-teller's words, another body drops, and an anonymous threat arrives at Grace’s doorstep: Don’t stick your nose where it doesn’t belong. Teaming up with Detective Sherwood and FBI Agent Howser, Grace finds that each cryptic clue leads to more even questions, hinting at a web of international intrigue and shadowy power brokers pulling strings from behind the scenes. With her own life on the line, Grace inches closer to unmasking the puppet master, realizing that in Sweet Cove's deadly game of chess, even a pawn can take down a king—if she dares to make the move.