THE REQUEST Ryan Francis' old friend Blake Norton asks him to help keep his affair a secret by retrieving an incriminating item from the woman's home. Ryan refuses to help, until Blake threatens to reveal his deepest and darkest secret. At the woman's house, Ryan learns two things: he knows her, and she is dead on her bedroom floor. With the sound of police sirens rapidly approaching, Ryan flees, wondering why his old friend was setting him up for murder. Determined to keep his life intact and to clear his name, Ryan can't rest until he finds out who the real murderer is - but solving the crime may lead him closer to home than he ever could have imagined.