Josh Drucker is a preacher's son with a calling to the ministry. Andrew Robertson a bouncer and construction worker with a taste for motorcycles. Both have dark pasts that they're trying hard to leave behind. They never would have met, if Andrew hadn't fallen for Josh's younger sister. What starts out as an unlikely friendship becomes a deep bond, until a tragic event leads to suspicion and revenge. When the smoke clears, two people are dead ... and one is on the way to Death Row.

Butch Pratt and Ed Swiger meet as freshmen at an idyllic college campus in western Pennsylvania. Butch is a product of the steel mills outside Pittsburgh, Ed the scion of a political family in Ohio. They're fast friends, fraternity brothers, and ultimately college roommates. Both are on the way to postgraduate studies and glowing careers. But a botched prank against their own fraternity suddenly puts the law on their tails. And with their futures at stake, one of them decides that success is worth killing for.

Growing up in a small Texas town, Misti Mayo and Christine Smith share everything: clothes, music, even teen pregnancy. Christine is the quiet country girl, Misti the brash hip-hop fan. But a move to the big city introduces them to a new lifestyle and a new group of friends. They find themselves in a spiral of bad decisions and escalating violence. With their backs against the wall, each of the girls has to choose between herself ... and her best friend.