Small town Sheriff, Eli Cabbott's backwater jurisdiction becomes the center of a frenzied national manhunt when a serial killer, 'The Prodigal' begins dropping his horribly mutilated victims in and around the Irio Valley, a quiet collection of rolling hills and bucolic farmland, ninety miles outside of Nashville, Tennessee.Eli is the son of legendary Tennessee lawman, Josh Cabbott, an historical figure so daunting at times it seems his ghost still rides the back roads alongside his son.As The Prodigal's manic killing spree continues, Eli and his men, already outgunned in the devastating meth war raging across their county and all the rural South, must turn their attention to doing what police departments across the country and even the vaunted profilers of the FBI have so far failed to do:Find The Prodigal.Stop him before he kills again.