Detective P.T. Marsh was a rising star on the police force of Mason Falls, Georgia, until tragedy undermined his judgment and self-confidence. After Marsh fights a woman's abusive boyfriend, the next morning he finds out that the man has died. Was Marsh to blame? What's certain is that his fingerprints are all over the crime scene. When an African American teenager is found dead, Marsh realizes that there were links between the two cases, and he has made solving them a lot more difficult. Amid rising racial tension and media scrutiny, P.T. uncovers something sinister at the heart of the boy's murder, and in his debut, he must decode a conspiracy leading all the way back to the time of the Civil War.