When a brilliant and popular college student disappears from Skyline Community College, a small, yet thriving school with a championship football team, reporter Samantha Church expects to find another case of youthful recklessness gone too far.
Instead, she finds murder.
Behind the trophies, money and championship banners lies something far darker. With the help of an unwilling professor on the verge of a major milestone, the college’s star quarterback and a maintenance worker, Sam discovers that a mastermind is secretly operating a lucrative human smuggling operation, an underground network that exploits vulnerable migrants desperate for a new beginning. The operation has drawn in students from the college itself—naive young men tempted by the promise of fast, easy money.
The young woman’s murder may be the one mistake that brings everything crashing down. Because the mastermind made one fatal error: He fell in love with his victim.
His final act of murder is the beginning of the end.