A second hiker is found murdered near an idyllic mountain lake, and Deputy Sheriff Tara Strong finds herself in the race of her life to catch a serial killer. Is he, as everyone suspects, an outsider? Or may he be closer than they think?
Tara Strong has risen to become her county's Deputy Sheriff through her bravery and her brilliant capacity to enter a killer's minds. Small-town life in the mountains, centered around their picturesque lake, should be idyllic. But Tara has already seen enough to know that there is a dark side to everything, that small towns hide secrets, that everyone has something in their past—and that a killer may just be lurking right next door.
Tara remains haunted by her own past, by her missing sister, by her guilt over the unsolved case. She must battle the demons of her own past, while trying to get ahead in a male-dominated police force.
Can Tara keep it together long enough to catch a killer?