Silas Tucker was the biggest football hero Cross Rivers, North Carolina, ever produced — until a shocking accident ends his career overnight. Humbled but never defeated, he returns to his hometown, where his father was murdered and never avenged. But Cross Rivers is hiding something far more dangerous: a ruthless Southern Mafia family running drugs and murder through the county's back roads. Out here, there's one rule for survival: you don't ride these country roads alone, or in the dead of night. "The plot is so propulsive, it blows you away. This is a great one." — Morning Joe