Victoria Colby-Camp is stunned by the murder of a Chicago police detective who had close ties to her family and her private investigations agency. She decides thereтАЩs only one man tough and objective enough to clear her name and the agencyтАЩs reputation. With the keen instincts of a professional, Daniel Marks begins digging into VictoriaтАЩs past, and into that of her long-dead husbandтАжwhose last days could be the key to the case.
Daniel reluctantly takes on an unofficial partner, Emily Hastings, the daughter of the murdered copтАФa woman determined to find her fatherтАЩs killer. Emily finds evidence linking her father to VictoriaтАЩs late husband, as well as discovering the treachery and madness that nearly destroyed VictoriaтАЩs son, Jim. And as the truth begins to emerge, it becomes clear that a ruthless Colby enemy wants certain secrets to stay buriedтАж.