Two young brothers are put in a closet by their mother's girlfriend. The first time Alice locks Jesse in, he thinks it's a game. As his captivity grows longer, he realises he needs to escape, or surely die.
From the moment Deborah Williamson meets her stepson, David Shafer, she feels something unsettling about him, but when her warnings about his frightening behaviour go unheeded, the devastation he ultimately wreaks goes beyond her imagination.
As a child, Benjamin Risha believes Tony Alamo when he preaches he's a prophet of God. But, as Benjamin grew up, he realizes the prophet's a liar, and he fears for his life, because he sees what happens to others who doubt Tony,
When Steven Crittenden confesses to his brother, Bryant, and swears him to secrecy, Bryant faces the toughest decision of his life - whether to keep the secret and risk letting a murderer get away with it, or tell the truth and betray his family.
When police tell Chris Matechen his girlfriend, Alyssa Dayvault, has confessed, he doesn't want to believe it because that means admitting he'd fallen for her lies and spent years blind to the horrific things she did right under his nose.
Vernon Jensen is so afraid of his wife Vicki and her violent temper that he decides to divorce her. It isn't until he finally leaves that he discovers just how far she'll go to get revenge.
