Troy and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars, but the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age 21, he has emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need to talk to psychologist Alex Delaware. But when the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation is silenced forever. Delaware and Sturgis retrace their steps through a grisly murder case and discover a chilling legacy of madness, suicide, and multiple killings.