Sean Emerson thought helping a client buy an eighty-acre farm would end with a routine closing.

Then a payoff statement reveals $550,000 no one can explain, and what should have been a simple real estate transaction begins to unravel.

As the missing money leads to secrets, lies, and a disappearance, the former police chief turned real estate agent finds himself pulled back into the kind of investigation he thought he had left behind. With the help of his former police partner turned private investigator, Frank Delaney, Sean soon discovers that the failed closing is tied to something far more dangerous than a disputed loan.

Some deals cost more than money.