Josh Sayles is missing, has been for two months. The cops have come up empty, and the teenager's father, Reverend J.T. Sayles, wants Hank Cassidy to find him. Hank hesitates; a newly-minted private investigator, he has no experience with missing persons cases. Despite this--and despite in instant, intense dislike for the pompous, self-centered minister--he takes the job, mainly because he needs the work and the man has a ready checkbook. But what Hank at first takes for easy money and a little on the job training will quickly become an excursion--figuratively and literally--down some of Central Oregon's most unpleasant back roads...ultimately leading him, beneath threatening skies, to a place where the darkest and most unexpected secrets will be laid bare...