Mark Novak just wants to go home. His life as an investigator for a Florida-based defence firm derailed when his wife, Lauren, was killed in the middle of a case the two were working together. More than a year later, her murderer is still at large and Novak’s attempts to learn the truth about her death have put his job on the line. Now he’s been all but banished - sent to Garrison, Indiana, to assess a cold case that he’s certain his boss has no intention of taking.
Ten years ago, a teenage girl disappeared inside an elaborate cave system beneath rural farmland. Days later, Ridley Barnes emerged, carrying her lifeless body. Barnes has claimed all along that he has no memory of exactly where - or how - he found her. Tired of living under a cloud of suspicion, he says he wants answers - even if they mean he’ll end up in the electric chair.
Novak has his own reasons for not wanting to be in Garrison, but why are the locals hostile toward his investigating the Barnes case? Soon Novak is made painfully aware that if he has any chance of returning to the life and career he left behind in Florida, he’ll need to find the truth in Garrison first.
