Ellie Stone, a young newspaper reporter in 1960s' upstate New York,
investigates a double murder at an abandoned stud farm near glamorous
Saratoga Springs. August 1962. A suspicious fire claims a tumbledown
foaling barn on the grounds of the once-proud Tempesta Stud Farm,
halfway between New Holland and Saratoga Springs, NY. The blaze, one of
several in recent years at the abandoned farm, barely prompts a shrug
from the local sheriff. That is until girl reporter Ellie Stone, first
on the scene, uncovers a singed length of racing silk in the rubble of
the barn. And it's wrapped around the neck of one of two charred bodies
buried in the ashes. A bullet between the eyes of one of the victims
confirms it's murder, and the police suspect gamblers. Ellie digs
deeper. The double murder, committed on a ghostly stud farm in the dead
of night, leads Ellie down a haunted path, just a stone's throw from the
glamour of Saratoga Springs, to a place where dangerous men don't like
to lose. Unraveling secrets from the past--crushing failure and
heartless betrayal--she's learning that arson can be cold revenge.