In the hours after midnight, an unusually beautiful young woman is killed on Sharkey’s dock in a manner both brutal and bloody. No one can figure out why the woman, so happy to have a stable relationship with a rising young lawyer in the District Attorney’s office, should show up hysterical and afraid, to make a huge scene in the DA’s office demanding marriage to save her or send her back to hell.

The ambitious Samantha Faulkner is assigned the case when the existing evidence points to her co-worker Matt Travis, the other half of that previously stable relationship. Samantha presses the detectives of the KWPD to avoid tunnel vision and expand their search for the real killer, especially when she learns that the victim had a scary stalker watching her every move.

Alana McCabe, sister of KWPD Officer Jordan McCabe, is living with Jordan and trying to work on her Post Traumatic Stress from an injury that almost killed her and that she does not remember. She is working with psychologist Dr. Rex Jamison to prepare her to remember the trauma of her injury in a non-threatening way and fill the empty gaps in her memory. She can’t understand why her late night wanderings take her again and again, to the cemetery where she finds herself staring through the tall iron bar fence into the rows of sarcophagi dimly lit only by the high street lights outside.

The detectives of the Key West police department are working to solve this bloody mystery and they all keep asking themselves, why Sharkey’s dock? It seems so unlikely to be random….