Roger Bainbridge, a Pulitizer Prize winning crime and investigative reporter from Chicago, at long last begins a personal sabbatical to write his first real contribution to the world of legitimate literature. There is no better place to cozy in and write than his long abandoned hometown of Brooksville -- a sleepy community along the Nature Coast of west-central Florida.

Roger is contacted by the serial killer Billy Weatherford while waiting on death row. He wishes to confess to the murder and mutilation of additional female victims.

Billy's macabre story forces Roger to face new realities about himself, his friends, and the hometown he had always believed to be sleepy Florida backwater. Billy's successes and failures as a serial killer were abetted by the community that hand nurtured both he and Roger.