When a woman Clark Thomas has never seen before sits down across from him in his bookstore, she gives him an invitation to dinner .
Along the way, he learns more about his wife\'s death, but with every answer, more staggering questions arise..
Clark finds everyone had a motive to kill the host, but only one could have done it.
It turns out that the cavernous home has its own secrets.
When the fingers point at Clark, he has to unravel the clues while the guests dig out from the storm damage that leaves them cut off from the outside.
The host leaves hints about who had a motive to perform the deed.
But a storm is coming that disrupts the dinner party and ends with murder at an oceanfront mansion on one of the most prime stretches of Myrtle Beach.
What Clark doesn\'t know is that someone wants the host dead, and the host wants Clark to figure out who before it\'s too late.
He is a retired Hollywood music composer and lover of puzzles.
Her father is the host.
He takes the beautiful stranger up on her offer. and murder. . .
When a woman Clark Thomas has never seen before sits down across from him in his bookstore, she gives him an invitation to dinner