Rising entomologist Scarlett Bellmare has returned to her remote hometown of Larkhill on a work assignment, hired by the local museum to investigate a surge of rare moth species swarming the area. The site of the phenomenon—and her temporary lodging—is the long-abandoned Hale Estate. Nestled in a meadow reclaimed by nature, the cottage home’s reputation is scarred by a set of unsolved murders that occurred on the property twenty years prior. But Scarlett isn’t the only expert brought in. She’s forced to share the space with a man she met once, eleven years ago: Jordan Wilde—a withdrawn and unsettling botanical archivist hired to catalogue the poisonous flora in the estate’s overgrown garden. The chemistry between them becomes as dangerous as it is potent when the pair becomes the target of someone determined to keep the past buried. Unsure of whom they can trust, Scarlett and Jordan find themselves drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a ruthless killer as they get closer to discovering the truth about the estate—including the tragic Hale family murders. What was meant to be a brief field study becomes a volatile descent into chaos. Beneath secrets and obsessions, Jordan and Scarlett begin to unearth things about Larkhill’s most notorious home that could free the town from its haunted legacy—or get them killed.