When Jack Monroe is visited by his former employer, mafia boss Jimmy Gigante, he is drawn back into a murky past he thought he had left behind. A dark secret has tormented his conscience since a summer lakehouse party twenty-five years ago, when his high school girlfriend, Eileen Delaney, vanished. Now a prominent and well-respected New York City neurosurgeon, his idyllic life is upended when her body is discovered, submerged in an abandoned rock quarry. The discovery sets off a chain of events that leaves Jack and those closest to him scrambling for their lives as they are pursued by powerful, ruthless adversaries determined to keep the past hidden. Some secrets refuse to stay buried.