Newlywed Dalia Dippolito returns home from the gym to the awful news that her husband had been killed; in a case where almost nothing is as it seems, investigators want to know if Dalia is diabolical or an unwitting pawn in a hoax gone wrong.

Ashlea Harris has no shortage of admirers, so when she is found dead after a suspicious fire consumes her apartment, police are baffled; the fire is no accident but the clues to who killed Ashlea may be up in smoke.