Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of the community, is accused of murdering Violet Davis, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s.

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy returns with an electrifying tale of friendship, betrayal, and shattering secrets that threaten to destroy a small Mississippi town. When Marshall McEwan left his hometown at age eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away ultimately spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington D.C. But just as the political chaos in the nation's...

FBI Special Agent Alexandra Morse believes that Dr. Chris Shepard's beautiful new wife is plotting to kill him. Doubts begin to gnaw at him as he looks into his wife's background, so Shepard agrees to act as bait to stop a divorce lawyer's scheme that may have already claimed nine lives, including that of Alex Morse's sister.

Physician Will Jennings and his family become the target of a psychopathic con man who has crafted the perfect kidnapping.