Delia Ford is Port Kenneth's newest social media darling, a young woman with a camera and a habit of showcasing what she views as the best of the city's people in a social media series she calls Populated Portraits.

But Delia Ford is very much alone.

When an art thief breaks into the Woolslayer Art Gallery and steals all of her art-and only her art-and then inexplicably leaves some of it in public places, often with taunting notes attached, Delia fights back the only way she knows how: By engaging her thief in a game of cat and mouse that elevates the entire Port Kenneth art scene, including elementary school artists and knitting bombers.

People flock to Delia's cause: her parents and brother, her neighbor, city influencer Tess Cartieri, the cop working the case, and one Meter Shaikovsky, her casual man who offers more benefits than friendship-or so it seems.

By the time the art thief is revealed, Delia has become a force for change in Port Kenneth, and her world has become strangely populated.