
Prudence Ryland has spent her life interpreting other people’s dreams—until her last San Francisco client collapses during a reading and she flees south to reinvent herself as a quiet librarian. But her fresh start detonates when she wakes in a Los Angeles hotel bridal suite beside a stabbed socialite, dressed as a “killer bride.”
To survive, Prudence turns to Luther Pell, a fixer in the glamorous coastal town of Burning Cove, who pairs her with Jack Wingate, a scarred crime analyst who reads scenes the way she reads dreams. Their plan: revive Prudence’s infamous psychic persona, lure the real killer into the open, and withstand the wrath of the ruthless Clara Dover. What follows is a fast, clue-driven spiral of staged murders, hypnotic “visions,” family poison, arson, and a final reveal that reframes every “coincidence.”