Zoey Wildes's former friend from high school, Chester Neidigh, has recently returned to Linville after a twelve-year hiatus and is working as an artist at 3 Count Tattoos. The day after a heated confrontation with another former classmate, Chester fails to show up for work. Worried about Chester's already precarious mental state, Zoey goes by his place to check on him. She finds Chester lying in a pool of blood following a vicious assault.

Since she knew Chester years ago and currently worked with him daily, Zoey gets caught up in helping Detective Tyler Gates with the murder investigation. As she delves more into Chester's life, Zoey finds that his homecoming was not as closely guarded of a secret as she'd previously thought. Several of their former classmates were aware that Chester was back. Because Chester knew some of their darkest secrets and wasn't above taunting them with the knowledge, they all had motive to kill him. The question is-who was so desperate to protect their secrets that they were willing to kill? Determined to uncover the truth, Zoey puts her own life on the line as she works to pin down Chester's killer for the three count.