The murder of eighteen-year-old Angie Vance was exceptionally vileher mouth was sealed with glue, an obscenity scrawledwas across her skin, and she was suffocated in a garbage bag. The killing seems personal, so police detective Carina Kincaid focuses her efforts on the victims much older ex-boyfriend, Steve Thomas. But without physical evidence, Carina cant make a collar or a case. She also cant stop Sheriff Nick Thomas, the prime suspects brother, from conducting his own unwelcome investigation.