When Dr. CJ Patterson returns to her Southern hometown, she
finds herself surrounded by a series of long-buried
secretsβand a killer who seems to know her better than she
knows herselfβ¦Drugs, prostitution, robbery, homicideβthese
are four terms that Dr. CJ Patterson learned all too well
growing up on the seamy, forgotten streets of
inner-cityΒ Huntsville, Alabama.
Fiercely determined, CJ worked hard to forget where she came
from and become an emergency medicine resident at a
prestigious Baltimore hospital. But when her younger
sisterβthe only family she ever hadβis murdered, CJ is drawn
back into the painful past she thought sheβd left behind.
Her unrelenting investigation uncovers a highly
sophisticated web of shocking family secrets, dark
obsession, and brutal violence and a killer who will stop at
nothing to keep her from learning the truthβ¦..