It’s 1994 – and in West Seattle, new mom Laura Benton is busy juggling work as a freelance music journalist with the constant demands of a young baby.
Life is crazy enough, but it takes a darker turn when she interviews Carson Mack, a down-on- his-luck country music star who's looking to make a comeback.
Carson is also desperate to make amends to the family he left behind years before and Laura finds herself sucked into helping him trace his long lost son.
It's a search that quickly becomes terrifying – and deadly – as family secrets are uncovered, and the threats to Laura and her family grow.
Pickpockets, pimps and prostitutes: All in a day’s work for the city constable – until work moves too close to home… When Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, discovers his former housemaid murdered in a particularly sickening manner, his professional and personal lives move perilously close.
Circumstances seem to conspire against him, and more murders follow. Soon the city fathers cast doubt on his capability, and he is forced to seek help from an unsavoury source. Not only does the murder investigation keep running into brick walls, and family problems offer an unwelcome distraction; he can’t even track down a thief who has been a thorn in his side for months. When answers start to emerge, Nottingham gets more than he bargains for…
Seattle, May 1988: Why would up and coming musician Craig Adler OD on heroin just days before signing a major record deal?
Craig's band was the first of the new Seattle music scene to break out of the Northwest and they were about to hit the big time. With everything to live for, Craig had been clean for months; everybody swore it.
Music journalist Laura Benton is determined to find the answer. But as she digs into the story, the pieces don’t quite add up – and then the threats begin. Just a phone call at first, then a bullet in the mail ... and as the threats escalate, her dreams turn to nightmares in the Emerald City and Laura finds herself desperately fighting for her reputation - and her life.