"A young girl, Kasey, is murdered in the woods of northern New York, a strange symbol carved into her stomach. Investigator Reed Raleigh, Major Crimes, is tasked with finding the killer. Reed has his own troubles. Heâs in therapy, divorced, and estranged from his son. But he desperately needs to solve this caseâhis own stepdaughter vanished when she was a teenager, and Reed knows all about the agony of having no closure. There's no way he's letting Kaseyâs mother go through that. But as Reed begins to dig, the case grows ever more complex. Why is Kaseyâs boyfriend acting so strangely? And why is her mother lying to the police? As evidence of Kaseyâs bizarre secret life starts to emerge, Reed realizes this case isnât just about a dead girl. Thereâs something much bigger at play in this small rural town: a decades-old secret that needs to be protectedâat any cost."