Meg Jeffries, a recent widow from the midwest, rents a condo on the beach in South Carolina to write a novel and work through her grief and loss. While running on the beach one morning, she is grabbed by a large man in the thick mist. His attempt to abduct her is thwarted by the arrival of an older couple and their Great Dane. Throughout her ordeal she makes new friends: Professor Zeke Sabins, also there writing a novel, but who she secretly worries...