Investigating the arson deaths of a wealthy couple, San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant DA Yuki Castellano find the case further complicated by the disappearance of a former governor's son, internal pressure, and the media.

Everyone is surprised when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart's Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. Twenty-four hours later no one has seen him, and the only person convinced Carter is still alive is his father, Mathias von Oehson. What Mathias knows and how he knows it would ultimately reveal a secret so damaging that it would be as if he were committing suicide himself. Reinhart now finds...