As the annual Iron City Festival approaches, Maggie Callahan, mystery writer and shop owner from a small town in South Carolina stumbles across what she believes to be a conspiracy brewing when two strangers enter her bookshop. The chain of events which unravel over the course of the next eight months leaves Maggie and the town folks reeling when two badly decomposed bodies are discovered a few miles outside the city limits of Blacksburg. Staring the Devil in the eye, Maggie stands face-to-face with a serial killer who has left a string of nineteen unsolved murders across Texas, Florida, Alabama and Georgia before reaching South Carolina. The FBI comes to the aid of SLED, working relentlessly to capture the killer and bring him to justice. Just when Maggie thought she had seen and heard it all, a bombshell is dropped into her lap -- leaving her flabbergasted and the "Iron City" changed. No one saw it coming!