Archaeologist Colten James Reid, Ph.D. takes his sabbatical from New York’s Museum of Natural History on the eve of his 60th birthday. He selects a serene lakeside town to research a new book but finds himself drawn into a community where corruption, greed, the occult, Native American relics and murder comes with their morning coffee.
Lance Roman, at 30, had six years in with CIA special operations teams. The physical scars healed fast, the dreams at night would last a lifetime. When a Deputy Sheriff position in New Jersey opens, Lance leaves the D.C. politics behind. A young girls strange disappearance welcomes him to the job and puts him under fire again. The River Styx cove is one of twelve enveloping Lake Hopatcong. Just 50 miles from bustling N.Y.C. this sleepy hamlet had its heyday of celebrities and society parties in the 1920s. How far would town leaders go to bring back the past? The morning mist shields an undercurrent of actions stretching from Las Vegas to Miami. To connect the dots of unsolved murders place new friends Colten Reid and Lance Roman in a life and death partnership. There are no coincidences. They are in the place they need to be.