When quilter Jillian Hart returns to her lake house in Mercy, South Carolina, she discovered her friend, Tom, is missing-and his estranged half-brother has moved into Tom''s house. Jillian doesn''t trust the guy, especially since he allowed Tom''s diabetic cat to escape. When police officers find Tom''s wrecked car with a dead stranger inside, Jillian is determined to find out what happened to Tom-before someone else turns up dead.