U.S. Senate Investigator, Nick LeRue, travels to Mississippi after his former girlfriend, Washington newspaper reporter Heather Cole, vanishes while she is investigating a 1955 lynching. Five white supremacists lynched a promising black activist and then celebrated their cruelty by carving their initials into the trunk of what became known as the "trophy tree." LeRue suspects that one of the racists has abducted Heather to prevent her from exposing his role in the long-forgotten hanging. There is no statute of limitation in murder cases. LeRue is joined in his search by Heather's identical twin sister, Melanie. Together, they unearth a decades old secret that leads them back to Washington and two unlikely suspects – a prominent U.S. Senator and the nation's foremost investigative reporter.  |