EMMA HAINES is a former insurance fraud investigator living in Clintonville, Ohio. Her beau, Stratton Reeves, is a retired award-winning journalist who owns a small newspaper in Stonefalls, West Virginia. Both have created enemies throughout their careers. On an April weekend vacation in the Red River Gorge of Kentucky, Emma and Stratton kayak down the Red River not knowing that a vengeful convict from the past stalks them while nature is about to unleash its own dangerous surprise. Meanwhile, their friends and business colleagues, Charles Wellington, Merek Polanski, and Detective Joey Reed discover that others are not who they appear to be. With help from Merek's research, Joey cracks the case of his career, which stops Charles's mother from making the mistake of her life. This book has as many twists, turns, rapids, and eddies as a crooked raging river. Brace yourself and Paddle Paddle Paddle