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After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus' deputies. Now, Titus must investigate a shocking crime in a small town where everyone knows everyone while also breaking up bar fights and being forced to protect racist Confederate pride marchers. For a Black man wearing a police uniform in the American South, that's no easy feat. But Charon is Titus' home and his heart, and he won't let the darkness overtake it.