Eventually, Stephanie Burton is hailed as “America’s Moral Compass.”  But something unsettling lurks beneath her outward persona.  Privately, she contends with emotional scars as sordid as any of the sensationalized stories the networks feast upon.  She has witnessed too many inexcusable acts of male arrogance and decides it’s time to impose her own form of personal accountability.

When the mutilated body of a local ex-jock is discovered in Grandview, Missouri, law officials start searching for connections to other crimes.  Soon, Andie Morrison, a data analyst with the Kansas City Police Department, ties the death to two other brutal sex killings and a tour of motivational speaking events.

The lengthy investigation leads down one blind alley after another, as the public fixates on every detail – with one virtuous voice at the center.