It's a new season ... Conley Hawkins left her family's small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rearview mirror years ago. Now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position in Washington, DC. Or so she thinks. For small town scandals ... When the new job goes up in smoke, Conley finds herself right back where she started, working for her sister, who is trying to keep...

Struggling over how to report a double murder in which a close friend has been implicated, Joanne Ross, a Scottish newspaper employee who is longing for her big break, helps to uncover dark secrets with origins in bitter cultural rivalries.

When a small-town Scottish woman discovers a severed leg in the boot of one of the local hockey players uniforms, it's a big scoop for the "Highland Gazette." But reporter Joanne Ross wants a front-page story of her own, and she hopes to find it in Mae Bell, an American jazz singer whose husband disappeared in an aircraft accident five years ago and who is searching the Highlands for her husband's colleagues. Things take a very sinister turn when...