Robyn fights to clear the name of Nick D'Angelo, a boy she had hoped to never see again, when he starts to turn his life around and then is charged with a serious crime.
When he visits a local convenience store to uncover some secret financial information for a real estate developer, Daniel finds himself in the middle of a robbery attempt.
When Boone and his friends witness a murder, and the friends are killed, Boone must decide whether to take responsibility and tell the truth, or to say nothing and let the murderers go free.
Quiet, shy Addie, lured into the woods is afraid she is about die, but when she learns she has been betrayed by her best friend and publicly humiliated, she realizes that there are things worse than terror.
"A shallow grave... human remains... an unsolved murder from years ago... It looks like the past is coming back to spin Mike's new life out of control. What's making the usually cool Riel so rattled? And what does a beautiful but manipulative girl have to do with it all?"--.