**Mature Content Warning** Recommended for ages 17+ due to language, sexual content and violence. Palace Hills...The very name struck shivers down the spine of the affluent city of Goldendale. Unfortunately, eighteen-year-old Nina Sharman has no choice but to call the poverty-stricken neighborhood her new home. Life for Nina seems bleak until a chance meeting with Conner Hale changes her mind and captures her heart, leading her to believe that maybe Palace Hills wasn't so bad after all. However, one tragic case of mistaken identity changes everything and leads to an event so horrifying that Nina believes she could never recover. Choosing to leave Conner behind, Nina vows never to return to Palace Hills again... Five years later, Nina has a new home, a new boyfriend and a new life. Yet, still broken by the ghosts of her past, Nina finds she must return to Palace Hills to put an end to a nightmare, which has haunted her for years. Upon return, one slip in judgment threatens to bring the life she had worked so hard to build to come crashing down.