English professor Connor Nye is worried about making tenure. He’s struggled to write after the tragic deaths of his wife and child five years ago. He’s finally just published his second book, a thriller about the murder of a young woman in a small college town. He’s now guaranteed tenure, and feels that his life is back on track. There’s just one problem: Connor didn’t write the novel. His missing student did. And someone knows. And wants to make him pay. To clear his name and protect his career and his life from the person threatening him, he has to unravel the frightening secrets buried in the manuscript.