It’s late February 2024 in Billings, Montana. A 12-year-old child is reported missing. Friends and family claim to have not seen him in days. The police fear he has run away. But when a friend is backed into a corner and faces a few hard facts about what is found inside his house, is what he tells the police the truth, or just a convenient explanation to cover for a more sinister answer to a death ultimately dividing a community and sparking controversy between police and the victim’s family.

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M. William Phelps is the New York Times best-selling author of 46 nonfiction books and winner of the Excellence in (Investigative) Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Phelps has written for numerous publications, including the Providence Journal, Connecticut Magazine and Hartford Courant. Diversifying his talents, Phelps consulted on the first season of the hit Showtime cable television series Dexter and has executive produced and starred in over 350 hours of true crime television. All of which gives him a confluence of expertise and experience to bring to true crime fanatics.

Phelps grew up in East Hartford, Connecticut, and now splits his time between Tolland County and N. Stonington, CT. In July 2017, he published his definitive, 10-year project about Happy Face Killer, Keith Hunter Jesperson, DANGEROUS GROUND: My Friendship with a Serial Killer.