Washington D.C. journalist Cassie Sheridan makes a serious career error which results in her being transferred to Florida to report on an approaching hurricane, but she becomes the focus of a killer when she meets eleven-year-old Vincent who has just found a severed hand on the beach, adorned with an identifying ruby ring.

Taking up extreme croquet while her home is occupied by working men, her father, and a team of ducks, Meg stumbles upon the body of a dead woman during a game and is pulled into a mystery involving a wealthy local family's shady past.

Harper, a clairvoyant, investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl from the Ozarks town of Sarne and finds she has a serial murder case on her hands.