Violent storms often hit Colleton County, North Carolina, but when a local attorney's promiscuous wife is killed, the murder blows the lids off more homes than last year's hurricane. As the victim's numerous lovers — including a handsome cousin of Judge Deborah Knott — scurry for cover stories, the judge begins her own investigation. What she finds is a tangled web of extramarital affairs and secrets linking half the county... while a massive hurricane rages up the Carolina coast and a very real human killer prepares to strike again.