After attending an Arrington properties meeting at the group´s newest location, The Vineyard Arrington on Martha´s Vineyard, Stone Barrington returns to New York City to catch up with his old friend Jack Coulter. Over lunch, Jack requests Stone´s help in settling his niece Sara into city life post-divorce. Always one to please, Stone takes Sara under his wing. But when various men from Sara´s past start getting hurt, and Jack´s loved ones find themselves a target in a deadly scheme, it´s up to Stone to put the pieces together... before the shrouded conspirer manages to tear them all apart, permanently.