The sins of the past shall not be forgiven...The body of Bernice Hogan, a troubled young former nursing student with a tragic past, is found in a shallow grave near a forest creek. Jolene Peller, a single mother struggling to build a new life with her little boy, vanishes the night she tries to find Bernice. Here cop Karl Styebeck is beloved by his community, but privately police are uneasy with the answers he gives to protect the life - and the lie - he's lived. The case haunts Jack Gannon, a blue-collar reporter whose own sister ran away from their family years ago. Gannon risks more than his job to pursue the story behind Styebeck's dark secret, his link to the women, and the mysterious rig roaming America's loneliest highways...