Located in the history-rich Finger Lakes region in New York, Cadence is a small town with a big secret.

When interracially married Marian Greene discovers a desecrated body in the library, she, husband Lester, and friend, Enoch Shenandoah, realize they are in peril and inextricably tied to the tragic, racially-charged secret as descendants of the town founders.

They race to solve the murder and reveal the secret, with the occasional guidance of dreams, spirits, and animals, and, along the way, they suffer moments of dark introspection and crises of faith.

The journey brings them to understand that the hope of Cadence’s redemptive future and their own safety rest in the fulfillment a 100-year-old covenant.