Trudy Roundtree, of the Ogeechee, Georgia, police department, is on the case when youth pastor Josh Easterling is electrocuted just before he is to baptize 16-year-old Crys Cleary. Crys disappears, believing she is a jinx because all those who have cared for her have died (her parents, her boyfriend, her pastor), and she wants to protect her grandfather--all she has left. Trudy convinces her cousin, police chief Henry Huckabee, that these deaths may be connected, so with his permission, she delves into the past to try to find the link that will bring a murderer to justice while trying to locate and protect Crys.