Rodeo star Coby Dillon vanishes in a storm on the very evening he was to set up house with his girlfriend Brielle Broussard. Where is he - and what has become of his mentor Dyce Dean Jackson? Meanwhile, Deputy Sheriffs Robely Danner and Frack Tilsley - partners in both work and love - are investigating reports of poisonous contaminated moonshine. And Robely's mother Gladys Calhoun is brutally attacked in the night. All these seemingly disparate events are connected by a thread of blood...