While in college, Shay Evans and her best friends met a captivating man who seduced them with a web of lies. By senior year, Shay and her friend Laurel were the only ones who managed to escape. Now, 8 years later, Shay's built a new life in a tony Texas suburb. But when she hears the horrifying news of Laurel's death (delivered, of all ways, by her favorite true-crime podcast crusader) she begins to suspect that the past she thought she buried is still very much alive. Recruiting the help of the podcast host, Shay goes back to the place she vowed never to return to in search of answers. When Shay's obsession with uncovering the truth becomes so consuming she can no longer separate her desire for justice from darker desires newly reawakened, she must confront the depths of her own complicity and conditioning. But in a world built for men to rule it, is justice even possible? And if so, how far will Shay go to get it?