Peacocks on Paint Creek

WHILE FORMER insurance fraud investigator Emma Haines and her friend Charles Wellington kayak on Paint Creek near Copperas Mountain, they witness a shooting. Emma stays in Chillicothe, Ohio, to crack the case and calls her beau, Stratton Reeves, to come and keep her company. Back in Emma's hometown of Clintonville, her office manager, Merek Polanski, and her friend Detective Joey Reed help her with the investigation that leads down a path of family secrets, danger, and another shooting that shakes Emma to her core. Pressures mount as people from the past return for love and revenge.