The novel delves into the story of Author Janae Mayfield’s heirs as they play a dangerous game with a deranged fan when their mother dies without finishing the final book in her wildly popular mystery saga, the Calendar Series, written under the pen name Annie Reeves. Reese and Peter Mayfield vow to let their mother and her work rest in peace, declining to release the notes for her final novel or hire a ghostwriter to finish the series. However, as the fortune earned with Janae’s words begins to dwindle, a member of their family disappears, and they are pulled into a real-world mystery, leaving each of the Mayfields concerned they might be next.