When Ted Danforth has a massive, life-threatening heart attack, he summons the most-unlikely ally to his bedside: Edwin Burrows.
Once Edwin appears, he's asked to "find her." But Ted's incomplete request also comes on the heels of a client's unsolved, violent murder.
Edwin Burrows, CPA, starts digging and discovers that Ted and the massacred client had a few secrets they'd kept hidden for years... the kinds of secrets that are meant to be buried.
One of those secrets? Ted fathered an illegitimate child, bringing the mysterious request a little too close to home: Rachel has an illegitimate sibling. But how much does Rachel really know? How far will people go to keep such secrets buried?
Secret lives. Secret offspring. Secret Accounts... Edwin soon discovers that people--wives, husbands, children--will go to immeasurable lengths to keep certain stains buried. And what for? For love.
But even Edwin isn't immune; with a few secrets of his own, he discovers something new about his own capacity for secrets. And love. And truth.