Bubbly college student and waitress, Mindy Morgenstern, is found strangled and stabbed in her own apartment. Family, friends, and the entire town of Valley City, North Dakota help law enforcement identify who could have committed this violent crime.

When twentysomething Patricia Richmond is found tied up, and murdered in her future in-laws' home, the resort town of Steamboat Springs, Colorado is at a loss. Who would have taken this bride-to-be's life in such a brutal way?