When the bank calls in its loan, Gary and Bobby Reilly face a brutal choice — go under or sell off part of the family farm.

Long-time family friend and financial adviser Ronnie Sullivan brokers a deal. But there are strings attached. Penny Reilly must leave Magnolia Court and return home to Australia.

Gary is wedded to the sheep farm. Bobby hates it with a vengeance and will do almost anything to break free. And Bobby needs money. Fast.

Leaving behind little more than a cryptic note asking close friend Stan to sell her cottage, Penny returns to Australia.

But something is very wrong at Reillys.

An unexplained fall from her horse leaves Penny a shadow of the woman she once was. As one crisis follows another, questions mount, and the people closest to her begin to wonder what is really happening at Reillys.

Thousands of miles away, Stan knows only that something isn’t right.

Fighting a guilty conscience and running out of options, Gary finally turns to him for help.

Stan flies to Australia — and walks straight into a hornet’s nest.