Until now, 18-year-old Lily Stevens has always been the perfect daughter of a Pentecostal preacher, but her secluded Arkansas community is shocked when Lily announces she's pregnant with the baby of Peter Cutchin, a young man from the church. When Peter vanishes without a trace before they can marry, Lily's life is thrown into even greater turmoil. Everyone in her small town, including Peter's furious mother, assumes the boy simply ran away and abandoned her, but fiercely stubborn and determined to find her child's father, Lily refuses to believe it. Help arrives in the unlikely form of Allan Woodson, an uncle her family doesn't acknowledge, but who might know where to begin the search for Peter. Their quest will take them out of Lily's safe church world and into the darkest corners of the criminal underworld on the Arkansas-Tennessee border, where neither Allan nor Lily can foresee the disturbing secrets they will uncover.