Favor Bosworth, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun Newspaper, investigates murders in the Loch Raven Reservoir in Maryland, and the Las Vegas wash feeding Lake Mead. The murdered girls went to Law School at UNLV along with Dan Brock who left school early to pursue a career in investing. Favor interviewed many of the girls' classmates, but only a few seemed to have the means, opportunity, and motive for murder.Favor is also tasked to evaluate Brock Investments for reporting false investment returns. She is assisted by two Private Investigators, Flint Osborne and Lauren Scott. The investigators and the reporter are led around Big Bear Lake, and through Long Beach, and Orange County looking for evidence. Favor finds that, in the end, no one is who they appear to be.