Detective CeeCee Gallagher has had some rough spots in her life, but she has overcome them through tenacity and professional courageousness. All of her friends and family members are connected to policework, even her ex-husband, her ex-husband's new wife, and CeeCee's new husband, FBI agent Michael Hagerman. Because of her vast experience as a police officer, as well as child, niece and wife of police officers, CeeCee is used to the ups and downs The Job can create.

When CeeCee gets a strange case that starts with a hand being dropped onto a woman's car and develops into a string of murders, she is ready for the usual disruption. However, she doesn't take into account how her messy case and Michael's messy, but hush-hush, case will disrupt the lives of their family members, as well as everyone they know. What starts as a routine part of a job, where nothing is routine, becomes a grief-driven obsession, as CeeCee has to try to emerge from the agony of loss and disaster to seek a justice on which everyone else has given up.

Another gripping tale from Stacy Dittrich will have readers rushing to the end, strangling on emotion and wondering for just how much couples must be willing to forgive.