Danny Deck, a middle-aged Texas writer, finds his peaceful life overturned by the arrival of T.R., the daughter he has never seen, her two children, and her two lovers--Muddy, a failed cat burglar, and Earl Dee, a dangerous psychopath.
In Florida's Key West, young Laurel is reunited with her long-lost father, but an unidentified danger looms over the reunion as Laurel finds herself haunted by a strangely threatening dream.