When investigative journalist Claire Mercer returns to her isolated hometown after her father's suspicious death, she discovers evidence linking his final days to a decades old disappearance that the town has tried desperately to forget. As she digs deeper, powerful people begin closing ranks, and a string of increasingly dangerous attacks convinces her that someone will kill to keep the truth buried. What begins as a search for answers becomes a deadly race against a hidden network that has controlled Blackwater Lake from the shadows for years.