In 1994, Lake Orion, Mich., is rocked by a murder; at first, the crime is a mystery -- but in a small town where everyone knows each other, rumors start flying; police soon expose a strange and twisted plot that no one saw coming.

In Las Vegas, a beloved father of four is found dead in his car; he's been bound, gagged, and asphyxiated; witnesses lead detectives to a local man named John Brian Ray, but this troubled man is just a pawn in the game of a criminal mastermind.

Three men die over a span of a dozen years, with no suspicion of wrongdoing and no files charged; but when a deadly car explosion rips through downtown Pensacola, Fla., a new investigation begins; all suspicion points toward just one person.