On a hot summer day, Maggie flies her first paying passenger, eager to showcase the sprawling beauty of the forests and lakes of Northern Ontario for a good cause: to help her friend Barbara get the funding she needs to grow her wildlife rehabilitation centre.
It is all going to plan until Maggie spots a pea-green canoe adrift on the lake right where she intends to land. She soon finds out the sunbathing figure at the bottom of the boat isn't what it seems. It is the body of the owner of a contentious short-term cottage rental business.
Maggie races to uncover what happened to the woman, fearing the already deep rift the short-term cottage rental is causing between Foxton inhabitants will cast a dark shadow on the day of festivities in support of wildlife. It turns out rentals are only a piece of the puzzle-cake thefts might be another...