Melisende is a fish out of water after relocating to a small community in the Oregon desert. Just as she's beginning to feel at home, she comes upon a grisly multiple car wreck and four shattered bodies on an isolated road. The crash offers plenty of opportunities for the apprentice mortician - but when the bodies are stolen from her mortuary, she is suspect number one. Then, lawyer Kendrick Pride arrives on the scene and Melisende begins to see that...