"As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they're about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back in Kentucky, Thea and her grandmother Lucy both awaken...

Twenty years after he disappeared, loving family man, Nobel prize winner and cosmologist Emil Ganz resurfaced as a new-age guru. Five years later he is found dead, apparently from an overdose, but Sergeant Decker has reason to think otherwise.