When Michelle Walker embarks on a book signing tour in New York to promote her novel 'Rotten Apple' she does not suspect that life is about to imitate art. Just like the character in her debut novel, her husband, Alex goes missing while on the tour. Michelle enlists the help of a fellow hotel guest, retired detective, John Powski, to help find Alex. As Powski investigates the case, he realises that all is not what it seems with the Walkers and that their case will lead him to an unsolved investigation that still haunts him. As the present becomes entangled with the past, secrets are revealed, lives become endangered and Powski comes to see that truth is stranger than fiction.