Anyone who thinks life in a small town is quiet has never lived in Carding, Vermont.Over at Cooper's General Store and Emporium, owner Andy Cooper notices that the people of Carding are eyeing one another with suspicion, and that makes him uneasy.Up at the Mount Merino Resort, members are busy picking out prime lots to build ever-bigger mansions on a second golf course that's more airway than fairway. For some reason, they haven't noticed there's no land to build their dreams on.Edie Wolfe knows about a secret life wrapped in a book of poetry. It may hold the key to the biggest crime ever committeed in Carding's history. Nowadays, Gideon Brown's face is always creased in a worried frown. The creases deepen after he helps his brother Jacob blow up a mysterious safe. What will happen when they reveal what they found inside?Two hikers stop at the Crow Town Bakery for breakfast, and tell a tale about a stolen car and a woman walking toward Carding on the Appalachian Trail without a water bottle. No one hikes the AT without water.The trust and security that the people of Carding, Vermont have enjoyed for so long now seems so fragile. But Carding--the heart of the Corvus River Valley--is too precious to lose. In the fourth novel of Carding, Vermont, the people who love this special place on earth are willing to risk everything to save the the small town they call home.