When single parent David Harwood loses his job and moves from Boston back to his childhood home of Promise Falls, he's not expecting anything very exciting to happen. But when h goes to see his cousin Maria - still not quite right after losing her baby - he finds something he definitely wasn't counting on.Maria is caring for a new baby, a baby she says was given to her 'by an angel' - but when David tries to find the real mother, he discovers a grisly murder scene.To save Maria from a jail sentence which could finally destroy her sanity, David realizes that he must dig beneath the familiar surface of Promise Falls. And soon he uncovers a place he never new, a town of twisted minds and even darker deeds, with an awful secret at its heart.