In Poppy Rice s second venture， the smart， outspoken FBI agent s vacation is rudely interrupted by a sinister murder FBI agent Poppy Rice is， rather unwillingly， taking time off to recuperate from injuries sustained on the job. A few days into her ill-conceived vacation on Block Island with Joe， her sometime-lover and soul mate， she happens upon a corpse dumped in the middle of the road.The body of the victim， a young girl from a summer camp for overweight teenagers， is painfully contorted， her face frozen in a death scream. There are no visible wounds and the cause of death is a mystery. Although Poppy is no stranger to gruesome scenes， she is so disturbed by the murder that she can t help but defy her orders to rest. Then， just as she begins poking around， another body is found in the same condition as the first; this time， the pathologist reveals another similarity-the eardrums of both girls were ruptured.Now Poppy must get to the killer before the killer gets to any more girls. With no clue as to the murderer s method or motive， she s going to need all the help she can get. But in the close-knit， tight-lipped Block Island community， secrets are kept-even deadly ones.