True crime podcaster Lena Crowe knows darkness. After losing her husband and child in a tragic accident, she's dedicated her life to telling the stories of others - victims, survivors, and the monsters who haunt small towns like Poplar Grass, North Carolina. When sixteen-year-old Maya is abducted and found about a week later, bloodied and traumatized, Lena is in Poplar Grass hoping to shine a light that might save the girl and the town from slipping into silence. But as Lena digs deeper, she uncovers chilling secrets involving a beloved high school coach tied to dark crimes, a drifter still on the loose, and another girl's disappearance long dismissed as a runaway. Then the nightmare turns personal. A taunting killer begins to stalk Lena, determined to make her part of his gruesome story. As he escalates, snatching new victims and daring Lena to stop him, she's drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game that will end only one way. Because in Poplar Grass, the dark roads don't end at the edge of town.