Jerold Volker was the youngest vice-president ever at one of Cincinnati's oldest and most prestigious banks. He was on the fast-track to success and he liked it. But Jerold had a secret - a deep, dark secret - and he was soon to learn that secrets have a mind of their own. They want to be told. They want to see the light of day, no matter how hard you try to bury them. For Jerold, the past had latched onto his shirt-tail and followed him into the future, and now he must deal with it. For Jerold, the secret came to him in the form of a mysterious text message that read simply "Help me." Frustrated and desperate, Jerold followed the clues back to his estranged Kentucky home town where the past quickly revealed itself. But things are seldom as they seem, and soon Jerold was floundering in the ashes of his tortured past from which he'd so ardently fled. Read this exciting, fast-moving thriller and grow with Jerold as he learns that pain and forgiveness are but two sides of the same coin; that the past cannot be buried and . . . The secret will not be denied.