In the town of Bellegarden, Virginia, Samuel West has become the youngest African-American commonwealth attorney in Virginia s history. But after one of the councilmen is found brutally murdered on Sam s first day, Sam will find out that Bellegarden is not the idyllic town he thought. With the mayor pushing for closure and the police department bungling the case, Sam must decide who holds the key to the truth. And when his wife, Shelby, is kidnapped while he investigates the most important murder of his career, he gains an unlikely friend while he uncovers a secret so shocking, it will ruin Bellegarden s reputation and may even kill him and his wife.