Keep an open mind, shut your mouth, keep your head on a swivel, and do your best from locking onto one suspect or scenario. These are the basic rules of investigation. But what do you do when the most plausible is also the least likely? Suspects abound, accounts are mixed and hard evidence is at a premium when Private Investigator John Harwell leaves the safety and security of the known to travel six hundred miles into a world where he's not only a distrusted stranger but everyone he comes across want him out of their lives forever. Everyone has something buried in their past...there are a few who are willing to do anything to keep it there.