Detective Harry Ambrose returns to his hometown in rural New York to assess a heart wrenching crime: parents murdered by their eleven-year-old son with no apparent motive. As Ambrose realizes there is nothing ordinary about the boy or where he came from, the investigation pulls him into the hidden darkness of his hometown. He is pitted against those who will stop at nothing to protect its secrets, and the mysterious Vera who proves to be a complicated, enigmatic piece to this haunting puzzle.