When Rose Morgan and her two cats Kaos and Madness come to Sliver Lake, she's just planning to clear out her late Grandma Louise's house. But when a dead body turns up in her kitchen she is plunged into a search for the truth. The problem is, she's new to town and doesn't know who to trust.

The stakes are raised when a second body turns up. Suddenly the big city is looking safer than the small town.