Detective Elena Cole is only four months back on the job. She's still not sleeping right. Still hearing her partner's last words some nights. Then a teenage girl turns up dead in one of Atlanta's richest neighborhoods. Staged to look like an accident. Elena knows better in under a minute. The girl's mother is a state senator who wants this buried fast. Standing beside her is Julian Reyes, the family's lawyer. Calm. Careful. Always one step ahead. Elena should hate him. Instead she can't stop thinking about him. The case pulls them closer than either of them wants to admit. Late nights. Closed doors. Lines neither of them planned on crossing. But the deeper Elena digs, the darker it gets. A secret three powerful families have kept buried for over a decade. A secret worth killing a seventeen year old girl to protect. Julian knows more than he's telling her. And Elena is running out of time to find out if he's protecting the truth, or hiding from it. Some secrets don't stay buried. They just wait for the right person to dig them up. And the wrong person to fall for.