Sixteen year old Parker has to go stay with her reclusive Aunt Len while her Mother's in the hospital. Parker quickly realizes her Aunt is living in solitude for a very dark and horrific reason.

When he's caught up in a deadly conspiracy, an unemployed greeting card writer must create the perfect card for a new holiday to save his skin.

In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a successful architect married to the beautiful Clara who leads a seemingly perfect life. But his fascination with an unsolved murder leads him into a spiral of chaos as he is forced to play cat-and-mouse with a clever killer and an overambitious detective, while at the same time lusting after another woman.