Reading as a kid. I always dreamed of writing the kinds of books that captured my imagination. I was a city boy who grew up on a farm because my dad wanted to experience living in the country. Given that our nearest neighbor was miles away, I was alone much of the time and books were my only real friends.

It's about a former teacher named Paul Schneider who has a checkered past and is accused by a corrupt police detective of kidnapping the little girl he sometimes babysat. Without proof that Schneider has done anything wrong, the local media and his entire neighborhood turn on him. He quickly loses his reputation, but unless he can prove he's innocent, he'll lose much more than that. His freedom and possibly his life. Because there's a killer loose in the community and he'll do anything, including murder, to keep his own past hidden.