It's Lew Ferris's first day as the Sheriff of McBride County, and she's finding that things are heating up in the Wisconsin Northwoods. The drowning of a teenage girl draws an eerie parallel to the unsolved murder of another teen 30 years earlier, but one of Lew's hostile new subordinates has ruled it an accident. Lew doesn't accept the ruling, but she is snared by police sexism and subterfuge. A meddlesome millionaire and a vigilante intervene, and in this sequel to Wolf Hollow, Lew is hard-pressed to ensnare the killer once and for all.