Twelve years ago, Heidi White's parents were shot to death on their dairy farm in Bad Axe County, Wisconsin. The police declared it a murder-suicide and closed the case. But that night, Heidi found the one clue she knew could lead to the truth, if only the investigators would listen. Now Heidi White is Heidi Kick, wife of local baseball legend Harley Kick and mother of three small children. She is also the interim sheriff in Bad Axe. Half the county wants Heidi elected permanently, but the other half will do anything to keep her out of law enforcement. As a late-winter storm washes out roads and turns gentle streams into raging rivers, Sheriff Kick finds herself hunting for a missing teenage girl in grave danger. Someone who knows Heidi's personal history is leading her down a twisted path through backwoods stag parties, derelict dairy farms, and the local salvage yard where another girl's body has been carefully hidden for a decade. Increasingly isolated from her family and colleagues, Heidi must uncover Bad Axe's unsavory secrets in order to bring a monster of unimaginable cruelty to justice without letting the unanswered questions of her own past consume her.