Dakota Rawlings, Texas Ranger, is accustomed to big adventure but nothing in his work has prepared him for the seemingly easy task os escorting Miss Darvi Wingate to the town of Stillwater and on to Aurora.
Eight years after his beloved wife, Elizabeth, was supposedly murdered by a serial killer, Dr David Beck receives information that suggests she may still be alive.
A group of the usual British murder-mystery types gather for a weekend reatreat at the sumptuous country estate of the esteemed Lady Somerset. But when one of the guests dies of poison her ladyship refuses to summon the police.