Life and death have brought Maggie Gardiner full circle, back to the Erie Street Cemetery where she first entered Jack Rennerâs orbit. Eight months ago, she learned what Jack would do in the name of justice. More unsettling still, she discovered how far she would go to cover his tracks. Now a young man sprawls atop a snowy grave, his heart shredded by a single wound. A key card in the victimâs wallet leads to the local universityâs student housingâand to a grieving girlfriend with an unsettling agenda.
Maggieâs struggle to appease her conscience is complicated by her ex-husband, Rick, whoâs convinced that Jack is connected to a series of vigilante killings. Also a homicide detective, Rick investigates what seems like a routine overdose on Clevelandâs West Side, but here, too, the appearance belies a deeper truth.
Rickâs case and Jackâs merge on the trail of a shadowy, pill-pushing physician, who is everywhere and nowhere at once, while Maggie and Jack uncover a massive financial shakedown hiding in plain sight. And when Rickâs bloody fingerprint is found at another murder scene, Maggieâs world comes undone in a violent, irreversible torrent of events...