Damara Van Brunt teaches Economics for Duke University. Life is simple and wonderful until that eventful day her brother calls from the hospital. Her mother has died; murdered. Trying to accept the truth, Damara also tries to sort through the family secrets. Carrie Clark comes to help her distraught friend, but both are thrown into a whirl wind adventure that takes them from Montana to New York City and finally, to Damara’s birth place of Manitoba, Canada. But unknown to both Damara and Carrie, the murderer is following their progress closely. But Carrie is anxious to answer the question why each first daughter is murdered on their fortieth birthday?