After the FBI suspends her for bending its rules, Special Agent Raleigh Harmon is looking for a chance to redeem her career and re-start her life.
Sent undercover to a thoroughbred horse track, Raleigh takes on a double life to find out whos fixing the races. But when horses start dying and then her own life is threatened, Raleigh realizes something biggerand more sinisteris ruining Emerald Meadows.
Shes never felt more alone.
Her one contact with the FBI is Special Agent Jack Stephanson, a guy who seems to jump from antagonistic to genuine friend depending on the time of day. And she cant turn to her family for support. Theyre off-limits while shes undercover, and her mother isnt speaking to her anyway, having been confined to a mental hospital following a psychotic breakdown. Adding insult to her isolation, Raleighs fiancé wants them to begin their life togethernowprecisely when shes been ordered not to be herself.
With just days left before the season ends, Raleigh races to stop the killing and find out whos behind the tracks trouble, all the while trying to determine if Jack is friend or foe, and whether marrying her fiancé will make things betteror worse.
Raleigh is walking through the darkest night shes faced, searching for a place where the stars shine bright.