Two years after the conclusion of The Blue Hour, Merci and her son are
living with her father. She's also dating Mike McNally, a respected
fellow officer. Merci and Mike are the golden couple on the force, and
even if Merci doesn't passionately love him, there's a sort of
comfortable inevitability to it all.
But everything explodes when a young prostitute is found brutally
murdered and Mike emerges as the primary suspect. The lead investigator
on the case, Merci must do the unthinkable--expose and arrest her lover.
Sifting through the clues with a growing sense of panic and outrage in
her gut, Merci has to work hard to balance where the truth is leading
her against where her heart is telling her to go. Meanwhile, an old
unsolved case from the sixties is thrown on her desk--the murder of
Patti Bailey, another prostitute with ties to the force--and the two
cases conspire to turn Merci's world upside down.