Crime-beat photographer Emma Anderson is barely recovered from the gunshot wound that nearly took her life, when her circumstances go from bad to worse. Now, her recovering addict sister is missing, the developer trying to steal her family's land from under her turns up dead, and her best friend Eric is in the frame for the murder. Erie City Police Detective Matthias Honeywell is out of his jurisdiction and his comfort zone, but he's not going to let Emma or anyone she loves go down for a murder they didn't commit. Given his difficult personal history with the lead detective, Matthias is forced to think outside the lines as he and Emma race to find her sister and discover the true killer. And with the murderer always two steps ahead, it will take everything they have to save the ones they love.