Spencer Reed's grandfather is finally out of rehab. She travels to Tucson to drive him to Wind Star Ranch, a horse ranch and assisted care facility on the edge of the Saguaro Desert where her grandfather plans to spend the remainder of the winter. A ranch with a legend of missing gold.

Spencer loves warm and arid Tucson. It beats a snowy winter in Minnesota. And Wind Star Ranch seems like a nice place filled with nice people. Until the owner ends up dead. Murdered in her sleep. Once again, a mystery lands in Spencer's lap, one with deadly consequences.

Join Spencer in the beautiful Arizona desert as she scrambles to identify a killer and locate a lost fortune in gold before the killer strikes again.