On a summer night in Portland Oregon violence erupts at a Little League game -- and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable . . .

In a cheap motel room in Washington D.C. Vanessa Kohler -- ex-mental patient supermarket tabloid reporter and estranged daughter of a powerful general running for president -- views a news broadcast of the bizarre incident and believes shes found the only witness to a deadly conspiracy.

Caught between a possible madwoman and a confessed mass murderer between reality and delusion Ami races to unearth the terrible truth about dark events that may or may never have happened twenty years earlier in a secluded cabin on Lost Lake.