Serving a ten-year sentence in a Nevada prison for armed robbery, Ethan Lockhart hopes that he can one day become a productive, law-abiding member of society. But society has other plans for Ethan. When heâs given a forty-eight-hour furlough to attend his sister Abbyâs funeral, he learns that her body was never foundâjust enough blood to declare her dead instead of missingâand he begins to suspect that thereâs more to her death than was reported. Ethan decides to use his forty-eight-hour window to find out what happened. But to get to the bottom of the mystery, heâll have to return to his unsavory past. Ethan teams up with his sisterâs best friend, Whitney, in a search for the truth. Theyâre united in their shared grief, and their chemistryâboth emotional and physicalâbegins to heat up. But romance goes on hold as the suspects mount. Ethanâs old boss, Shark, a mid-level loan shark, now heads a criminal empire. As Ethan and Whitney uncover more clues, they become convinced that Shark is responsible for the murder, but they have no proof. If Ethan is going to solve his sisterâs murder in forty-eight hours, he will have to become the criminal he swore heâd never be again.