Chloe Parker dutifully fills her role as the daughter of an absentee father who demands her loyalty to his ranch nestled high in the Rockies. Even with an immense love for the mountains, Chloe knows she doesn't belong. When an opportunity comes for her to meet family in the deep South for the first time, she decides she has to go. Drawn into a forty-year cold case of a dead grandfather she never met, Chloe comes to the aid of her frail grandmother to prove what really happened in the deep woods of Mississippi. Long-buried, unimaginable secrets surface at an abandoned homestead. Can Chloe find justice for the spilled blood of her grandfather before a killer goes free?