Teresa Crowe

Some truths keep you sane. Others shatter you. Ruby Hancock always believed she was a psychiatric nurse doing her best to care for the patients at Crown Point Psychiatric Hospital, an innovative behavioral health care facility along the Chesapeake Bay.

When Janessa "Nessa" Douglas inherits her grandmother's house in Mystic Beach on the Chesapeake Bay, she intends to sell it and never look back. The locals still whisper about her grandmother, Elspeth, who wrote strange fairytales about women who kept dangerous secrets.

Addie Marsh and her boss, Dr. Clara Starr, stumble upon an abandoned boat along the shore of Chesapeake Bay. Department of Natural Resources Officer Blue Wild reveals that the boat’s livewell is filled with blood.

When a series of suspicious deaths occur at Sunview Assisted Living Facility, Vallurea Starr, a deaf resident, joins forces with friends Emma, Jane, and Blossom to uncover the truth behind the deaths.