ROTTED HEARTS. BITTER ROOTS. WORMWOOD EATS. DECAY.

Atlanta police officer Matthew Bannon hasn’t spoken to his father in decades. But when he’s summoned to a small north Georgia town to identify his father’s dead body, the words scrawled in blood on the walls of the abandoned mill tower make one thing clear: this was no ordinary murder.

While on the hunt for the twisted soul responsible, Matt discovers a binder full of letters his father wrote him over the years – one for every school day of Matt’s childhood. As Matt reluctantly begins to read them, each page pulls him deeper – not only into the truth behind the murder, but into a confrontation with his own soul. Word by word, Matt uncovers deceptive and dark secrets about the town that are older than its foundations – a history that both he and the killer are woven into the fabric of.

But the letters may be the only guide Matt has left. Will the words within them be strong enough to bring truth to light before the killer strikes again?