On a rain-slick road, a car crash leaves only three survivors: an infant, a man clinging to his life, and Kendall Dutton. But she doesn't dare reveal her or their true identity to the authorities. Instead, she plans her immediate escape. Her perilous flight begins. The best public defender in Prosper, South Carolina, Kendall had stumbled upon the town's chilling secret, turning her marriage to one of the its most powerful men into a living hell. Now, Kendall is a terrified mother trying to protect her child, a reluctant witness who knows too much about an insidious evil, surrounded by forces that will stop at nothing to protect what is theirs.