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Samantha (“Sam”) Powers, a 34-year-old investigative reporter, has returned to her hometown of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, to take care of her ailing father, the town’s former police chief. At the urging of a family friend, she takes a job as the new travel columnist for Carmel Today, a local lifestyle magazine. Sam sets out on her first big press trip to a luxury resort on Maui. There she meets her fellow travel writers and the resort representatives hosting the trip, all of whom become suspects when one of the writers is found dead in his suite.

The Civil War scattered her family, and now, along with her beloved horse, a young woman must travel across a war-torn country to collect what's left of her life.