Tell Sherry April called." A simple phone message that shakes Joe Picketts oldest daughter Sheridan & the rest of the family to the core. To Joe it doesnt seem even remotely possible that April could have survived the massacre described in Winterkill six years before. He was there & he was unable to save her. But Sheridan starts to believe theres a chance that April is still alive & her suspicions are confirmed when the person sending texts to her cellphone is able to recall family incidents only April could know. Joe however remains wary of the messages. But when the texts start to refer to "bad things " & when Marybeth discovers they come from locations throughout the West where vicious murders have taken place alarm bells go off. Desperate to discover if April is still alive & to save her from possible danger Joe Sheridan & Nate Romanowski take to the road to connect the texts with the crimes. Meanwhile a dying Chicago mobster named Stenko & a much younger girl cross the country. Hes on a mission to reconcile with his extreme environmentalist son before he dies. His son is less interested in reconciliation than in getting his father to repent for the environmental crimes hes committed during his lifetime. He wants his father to become not just carbon neutral but to reduce his carbon footprint to below zero
- as if hed never even existed. As the path of Stenko & his companions starts to cross with Joe Sheridan & Nate the question is raised: Is this young girl April or are the Picketts the victims of a cruel hoax?"