When a key witness in a high profile rape is found dead, Mike Logan and Nola Falacci dig into the rape case, discovering a football team who protect their own, and an ambitious Assistant District Attorney with an agenda. Hours before she was to testify in an explosive rape case, Traci Kwon is found dead in a stairwell. When Logan and Falacci attempt to investigate the murder, they find themselves stonewalled by an entire college football team, whose members are facing prosecution for rape. However, when what Traci was going to say on the stand is called into question, Logan, Falacci and Ross have to delve into the motives of a powerful ADA and his ambitious wife who both have a lot to lose if the rape case doesn't go to trial.

Detectives Mike Logan and Nola Falacci become emotionally involved in the pain of a disenfranchised community and the toll of senseless violence as they investigate the execution-style shooting of four college freshman. Logan and Falacci investigate the execution-style shooting of three college freshmen. When the utter senselessness of the crime hits Logan, he vows to apprehend the killers and bring them to justice. At a loss as to identifying any motive for the shooting, the detectives must rely on the testimony of one of the surviving victims in order to break the case.