When Ivy Snow, a former Olympic eventing hopeful, leaves her fractured marriage behind and moves to the charming horse-country town of Wellington, she expects a fresh start. Instead, she finds a community shadowed by old money, buried secrets, and a dangerous thirst for revenge.
At forty-nine, Ivy is rebuilding her life as the publisher of Equestrian Style magazine and the mother of fraternal twins. Years after a near-fatal riding accident destroyed her Olympic dreams, she discovers that her criminal-defense-lawyer husband has been living a double life. Seeking peace in a small country town, Ivy is pulled into a nightmare of blackmail, arson, terrorism, and murder.
As a prolific arsonist terrorizes Wellington, Ivy must uncover the truth behind a steel tycoon's suspicious death and a friend's apparent suicide. The trail leads from the shores of C te d'Ivoire to the riverbanks of Paris and into the cloistered world of America's wealthy elite.
But Ivy's greatest concern is her psychic teenage daughter, whose unsettling visions may reveal more than anyone is prepared to face.