En route to a reporting job, car trouble forces Bob Smith to stop for the night in Lazarus, Arkansas. Suspecting he's lucked up on some bucolic Fountain of Youth, his investigating skills and innate curiosity take him close enough to the town's secret to fall victim to it.

He gets away with his life, his car repaired good enough to get him to Little Rock, and a 24 gap in his memory, only to be drawn back by nightmares and deja vu flashes as puzzling as they are frightening. He encounters danger and the love of his life on his way to the truth about those lost hours.