Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface.

Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Titus’s deputies. As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon.

With the killer’s possible connections to a local church and the town’s harrowing history weighing on him, Titus projects confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the town’s Confederate history.

Cainan Scott has come to the end of the road. The people looking to kill him have discovered his location. The witness Protection Program has done all they could. He now has to walk away to save the woman he loves.

AnnieMarie has waited all her life for a love like her parent’s. To save someone’s life the man she loves exposed himself to criminals he was scheduled to testify against. Now they want him dead. The emotions are high from the murder of her father to the kidnapping of her sister and now the betrayal of a family member.

The emotional bank is now overdrawn for Cainan and AnneMarie. Will they cut their losses and go their separate ways Or will they make a withdrawal from love’s Private Stock?

Cainan Scott has come to the end of the road. The people looking to kill him have discovered his location. The Witness Protection Program has done all they could. He now has to walk away to save the woman he loves.

AnnieMarie has waited all her life for a love like her parent’s. To save someone’s life the man she loves exposed himself to criminals he was scheduled to testify against. Now they want him dead. The emotions are high from the murder of her father to the kidnapping of her sister and now the betrayal of a family member.

The emotional bank is now overdrawn for Cainan and AnnieMarie. Will they cut their losses and go their separate ways Or will they make a withdrawal from love’s Private Stock?