It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to 38 years in prison on corruption charges. When PI Michael Kelly gets an anonymous email offering to pay him nearly quarter of a million dollars if he will find Perry, no questions asked, his investigation begins with the woman Perry left behind - his wife, Marie. Ostracised by her former friends and hounded by the feds, she tells Kelly she has no idea where her husband is. Like everyone else, he doesn't believe her. As he hunts for her husband, he begins to unwind Marie Perry's past. What he finds is a woman who turns out to be even more intriguing than her husband, with her own deeply complicated reasons for standing by him.