In the quiet heartland of America, where the prairies stretch under endless skies, you might imagine life moves at a different pace. Simpler. More predictable. For Maeve O'Connell, a private detective operating out of Riley County, Kansas, that was certainly the case. Her days at the Prairie Shadows Detective Agency were usually filled with the mundane mysteries of rural life – stray cattle, missing heirlooms, the occasional wayward spouse. She was a woman of logic, of tangible evidence, firmly rooted in the practical.