Liam Miller has it all: good looks, intelligence, and a future brighter than the Oakhaven sun. But beneath the polished facade, a dangerous secret festers, one that could shatter his carefully constructed life and expose a truth he's desperately kept hidden – his heart belongs to someone the town would never approve of. When Noah Vance, the only person privy to Liam’s forbidden desires, turns up dead in the chilling depths of Whispering Pines, Liam is plunged into a nightmare. He was there, he saw it, and now he’s trapped in a web of lies and suspicion, forced to confront not only a killer but the very identity he’s tried to bury. As secrets unravel and the line between truth and deception blurs, Liam must outrun a murderer and escape the shadows of his own making before they consume him entirely.