It is 1925, a year after James Anderson was cast out from his position with the Conway Police in New Hampshire. Starting a new life in New York, he gets a call that makes him return home to face the unsolved mystery and demons he tried to leave behind. The first night aboard the private train,
The Blue Star
, the young matriarch of the Cross family was found passionately stabbed and murdered with the number 71200 carved into her arm. This mark, as well as notes laced in Greek mythology left behind for Anderson to follow, causes him to investigate alongside the controversial journalist, Martin O'Reilly. Soon he finds that not everything is as it seems as societal expectations, greed, and pride become the undercurrents of the once esteemed Cross family.