When Leah finally returns to her small town after five years, she doesn't find the warm welcome she's expecting, as she opens the door to find her father's corpse hanging from the ceiling. The police rule it a suicide, but the longer she stays in town, the more she suspects that it was anything but. In the middle of it all is a violent book her father was writing called Battlegrounds, which has half of its pages missing. But the townsfolk don't appreciate Leah snooping around, and there's no limit to what they'll do to stop her from uncovering the truth.