Fresh out of the military and with a private investigator's license in hand, John Kirsh returns home to solve his very first case. People say Canyon Creek is quiet, peaceful, ordinary...they're dead wrong. Along the cul-de-sac streets and manicured lawns, something festers. When Private Investigator John Kirsh takes on the Donnelly case, it does not just open old wounds; it tears them wide. What starts as a need for closure spirals to a series of murders of the most bizarre. The deeper John digs, the stranger-and deadlier-the investigation becomes. Some doors once open can not be shut.