Kendall Deaton pulls herself and her baby out of a wrecked car, and a mixture of courage and fear gets her to the top of a ravine, where she flags down help. But she doesn"t dare reveal her true identity to the authorities. Instead, she plans her immediate escape. Her perilous flight begins, e best public defender in Prosper, South Carolina, Kendall had stumbled upon the town"s chilling secret, turning her marriage to one of the town"s most powerful men into a living hell. Now Kendall is a terrified mother trying to save her child"s life... a reluctant witness who knows too much about an insidious evil...and a woman surrounded by forces that will stop at nothing to protect what is "theirs".