A father is bludgeoned to death and his wife is assaulted after an assailant breaks into their family home. As detectives sort through the evidence, an unlikely relationship emerges involving a suspect who has held a deadly obsession for years.

In December 1994, a house fire in small town Horn Lake, Mississippi claims the life of Lula Young, a beloved woman with terminal cancer; local law enforcement suspects foul play. Investigators’ hunt for the arsonist leads them to a suspect close to home whose greed knows no bounds, even murder.

When a young mother-to-be is shot in her home, investigators struggle understand why. When her killer comes forward with a wild story of an assassination plot ripped from the pages of a spy novel, a stranger-than-fiction mastermind is revealed.