The last time Eddie was in Key West, she was sent to retrieve some politically sensitive photos. She left five bodies, four of them dead, in the little city. Now, her handler has put her on ice until she can prove she is not out of control.

To prove herself, she has decided to return to Key West as the new artist/photographer providing gritty urban images of little Key West. Her photography is causing waves in the local art world and getting attention in the galleries. She is also stirring interest among the young men of the town, including Officer Doug Webber, who finds her irresistible. She exudes confidence, an urban edginess, and a sense of danger.

With no clues and the elections over, the politicians want to declare August’s shooting at Detective Sharkey’s engagement party a cold case and file it away. However, the KWPD Chief is having no part of filing away a case that left a uniformed officer dead. He assigns Detective David Sharkey to work on it in his spare time, until it is solved. Sharkey, in turn, recruits his friends, Rex Jamison, a former forensic psychologist turned author, former detective Doug Webber, and unconventional Key West attorney R. Slone to help him. They make a pact to solve this one for Piper, the only one to survive the deadly killing spree. Through a series of dreams, Piper’s amnesia about the day she was shot is slowly fading away.

With a shooter who left no clues, they have to dig deep and go unconventional to find leads to direct the investigation of this cold case.

While they are looking for cold case clues, Sharkey gets another case, an active one. They have someone leaving dead bodies in the sand. These are not robberies. Someone is only killing them.

A killer is in town.