Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver have been called to Doraville,a small town in North Carolina. The sheriff in town has become desperate and is working with a number of private citizens to pay her fee. The problem: over the past few years, a series of teenage boys have gone missing. In fact, there have been six of them. The grandmother of the most recent missing boy has a bad feeling about the status of her grandson and thinks that Harper's unique skills at finding the dead are going to solve the mystery before more boys go missing.

This turns out to be a good idea since Harper finds them in the first afternoon. The only thing is that there are eight bodies, and the boys were not only killed but tortured and sexually abused. The small town is torn by the fact that such a horrible thing could happen in there tight-knit community. They are thankful to Harper for locating the boys, but everyone is focused on finding the murders.

While all of this is happening, Harper gets a chance to consider her romantic life or lack of one. There has always been a taboo-like attraction between herself and Tolliver. Then, there is the tattooed and pierced grandson of a fellow psychic who has not been shy about showing his interest in our hero.

Both sets of mysteries reach a surprising conclusion that leads the reader through all sorts of action and suspence.