Upon her arrival in Texas to give a deposition, Jessica gets in a small accident that results in her leg being broken. Not long after being taken to the hospital, she soon discovers that the politics on the administration level can be murder when the hospital's chief of staff is found dead at home the guilty party lets a nurse working at the hospital take the blame for the crime.

Jessica is in Wyoming for the funeral of an old friend and soon gets involved in a murder investigation when an old business associate who arrived for the funeral, claiming to be the rightful heir of the deceased's property, is found murdered in the barn. As Jessica begins to wade through the clues, she soon discovers that the rancher's old army buddies and brother all had their reasons for wanting the man dead, and those reasons included a secret involving the rancher's daughter.