Charles Edwards, MD, needs only three things-a respectable position in a small town, a book of old rituals, a steady supply of Charles Edwards, MD, needs only three things-a respectable position in a small town, a book of old rituals, a steady supply of human blood. Charles and his mother Alma, nurse and mortician, have one mission: preserving Charles's dead father for their annual "reunion." Northern Indiana's Amish country gives them the perfect home. In Memphis, university professor and Indiana native War Tennison finds his massage therapist hanging in her studio. The M.E. rules her death a suicide. War and Detective Chassie Williams, disagree. His focus-his disturbed ex-wife Rachel. As his investigation progresses, the Edwardses and Tennisons become gruesomely intertwined.