For thirteen-year-old Sage, living with his low-life con artist father Marty in Las Vegas hasn't been easy. When Marty dies, the authorities arrange to send Sage to Evansville, Connecticut, to live with family he never knew existed. Sage plans to stay only long enough to steal their valuables and their car.

Just as Sage is leaving Las Vegas, he discovers Marty was hustling clues about a murder and there is a million-dollar reward being offered. Sage decides that for a million bucks he can stick around Evansville awhile and solve the case.

What Sage doesn't plan on is one of his family being a murderer-and wanting him very, very dead.

Start this heart-pounding mystery you'll never forget.