Even paradise can hold dark secrets just beneath the sparkling surface. Everyone has an image to uphold, especially in Orange County, California.

Poppy Mackenzie has spent half her life avoiding her past and living as an ex-pat. When her grandfather coerces her to come home and work for the family business, she must put her free-spirited life on hold.

What was supposed to be a boring office job for six months, turns out to be something altogether different. Family secrets, mysterious strangers, and a dead body conspire to pique her curiosity and mire her in more than one mystery as she keeps digging for the truth.