Miranda Marquette reconnects with her family after years of separation. In what starts only as a visit from her brother, Michael and his fiancé, Kara, ends as an announcement that they have decided to relocate to California.

On a hike with them the next day, bordering nearby Coyote Lake, the three of them discover two bodies anchored at the bottom of a holding pond near the lake. Soon they discover the bodies belong to Miranda’s neighbor, Jerry Carter, and Matoska, the mother of Chenoa the Indian Princess. Once again, Sally Roop, Miranda’s neighbor comes under suspicion for the murders. But there are also international undertones to the case, making it even more confusing.

Once again, Miranda enlists her friends Margo, Wanda and Lyanne, the WAIT Club, to solve the case, and her future brother-in-law, Mark, to defend her neighbor Sally.