The small Catskills town of Red River is rocked when the dynamic young heir to the local rabbinic dynasty is found murdered in the synagogue his family split from. It is up to his childhood best friend, now the local sheriff, to find his killer and keep the town from boiling over. Her quest is made more difficult by the fact that she is seen as "off the derech" (a Jew who has left the Right Path) by the victim's family. An additional complication? A strange drifter showing up with mysterious abilities. Not to worry though, Em has some tricks of her own. Will they find the killer before the killer finds them? And how does his murder tie into the town's secret history?