Blackwood is a small provincial town, unremarkable to most people who pass through it. Stella's life in Blackwood has settled into a comfortable, predictable routine — until three things change it: one missing friend, one text message, one step into the shadow that reaches up to meet her. To find the truth about what happened to her friend, Stella takes a job at a nightclub embedded in the town's network of secrets and dangerous connections. Every detail she uncovers could be the thread that unravels the mystery — or the one that makes everything worse. What starts as a search for a missing person becomes a reckoning with everything Stella thought she understood about herself.