Searching for a fresh start and a serene place to heal from both mental and physical wounds, Agent Spenser Song found herself answering the job posting for the quaint town of Sweetwater Falls.

After a series of tragedies turned her world upside down, FBI Agent Spenser Song felt like a woman adrift in a sea of chaos. Her brush with death and the tragic murder of her husband left her questioning everything in her life. And when it became clear that Bureau politics will trump justice, Spenser realized she needed a fresh start.

Looking for a slower pace and needing to heal, Spenser is hired on to be the sheriff in the idyllic town of Sweetwater Falls. The town is everything her best friend said it would be, and all in the Falls was seemingly perfect.

With the exception of her cantankerous landlord, Ryker Makawi, a former Navy SEAL with issues and a past of his own.

When a local woman is murdered, the case proves to be far from simple, and Spenser finds herself forced to work with the ill-tempered Ryker.

With her past trying to reach into the present to pull Spenser into a cold dark grave, Spenser soon realized that the chaos she fled from had found its way back into her life.

Spenser Song came west to find peace. But the new girl in the Falls soon finds herself in the fight of her life.