"Jake Whitmore is enjoying a rare bonding moment with his sixteen-year-old son, Kurt, when disaster strikes. They get in a terrible car accident that threatens to derail not only Kurt's chances at college, but his entire future. Jake makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies, and secrecy. Just when Jake thinks he has everything under control, a malevolent outsider comes...

When Dr. Mike Scanlon is called to Afghanistan as an army doctor, he is aware of the hardships it will cause his wife Chloe and their newborn daughter; when Chloe dies in an apparent household accident, Mike returns home to bury her and discovers the life he left behind has fallen apart.