Life and death have brought Maggie Gardiner full circle, back to the Erie Street Cemetery where she first entered Jack RennerтАЩs 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 victimтАЩs wallet leads to the local universityтАЩs student housingтАФand to a grieving girlfriend with an unsettling agenda. MaggieтАЩs struggle to appease her conscience is complicated by her ex-husband, Rick, whoтАЩs convinced that Jack is connected to a series of vigilante killings. Also a homicide detective, Rick investigates what seems like a routine overdose on ClevelandтАЩs West Side, but here, too, the appearance belies a deeper truth. RickтАЩs case and JackтАЩs 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 RickтАЩs bloody fingerprint is found at another murder scene, MaggieтАЩs world comes undone in a violent, irreversible torrent of events...