After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, all Rose Franklin wants from the divorce is the couple's camper. Determined to settle into a new lifestyle, she finds herself at Shady Grove, a campsite along the Mississippi River, where a man commits suicide on the day of her arrival. Could his death somehow be linked to the ancient slave burial ground he was researching? As the mystery keeps up, Rose finds herself in the middle of all the chaos, learning about the townspeople and the man himself. What exactly was it that drove him to take his own life? And how could it have been avoided?
