Therapist Dr. Mark Fabian has been bludgeoned to death in his office. But that doesn’t stop former patient Nadine Raines from talking to him --- in her head. Why did she come back to her hometown after so many years away? She committed a shockingly violent act when she was 16, and has never really been able to explain that dark impulse. Meanwhile, Detective Henry Peacher discovers that shortly before he died, Fabian pulled the files of two former patients: Nadine Raines and Johnny Streeter, the latter of whom is now serving a life sentence for a mass shooting five years ago. Could there be a decades-old connection between Nadine and Streeter? Maybe that would explain why Fabian ended up dead two days after Nadine’s return.

When Gretchen Waters dies falling on a set of stone steps outside the library, no one suspects foul play, certainly not Gretchen’s best friend Jamie who becomes her literary executor. But, as she delves further into Gretchen’s latest manuscript, she encounters a sinister new world, and suddenly Gretchen’s death seems suspicious- and Jamie finds herself in danger as well…