When Vivian and her husband move to his hometown and buy a ramshackle mansion she wanted to settle into the quiet small town and start a family, but the fates intervened and she was left bewildered in this unusual town. A group of men who were members of a strange militia took over the restoration of her home led by a local garage owner. Graham was tall, knowledgeable, and self-confident, and he always had a kind word for her and a twinkle in his eye, but she had contempt for this leader of a rightwing militia, When after another murder, he sent men with guns to protect her, she felt like a rebellious teen who had been ordered to stay in her room. She now knew that the town was run by a cohort of cousins, Graham and the police chief among them. Who were these people? And why did she want this dangerous man to wrap his arms around her?