Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastors Bay but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages haunting reminders of his past crime and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old girl has gone missing this time from Pastors Bay and the missing girls family has its own secrets to protect. Now Parker must unravel a web of deceit involving the police the FBI a doomed mobster named Tommy Morris and Randall Haight himself. Because Randall Haight is telling lies . . .