After discovering a mother dead of an apparent suicide in 2017 in Corning, NY, police find evidence she was murdered. As detectives search for answers, they uncover a web of emotional manipulation that resulted in a deadly ultimatum and an unthinkable choice.

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.