Clay Johnson and his best friend Freeman Stamford, both detectives, had planed a relaxing week of fishing at Clay's cabin on Lake Chaffee. It's there they meet Connie Simpson and her daughter Beth. An instant friendship was formed between the four of them. Little did any of them know, that at the same time, a gang known as the 'Devil's Messengers' had also arrived in the area. What was their purpose and who put them up to it and why? Clay was determined to find out. How were the murders of two other young women tied into it? The answer is learned with in the pages of this novel