After 22-year-old Micki Filmore is found raped and murdered in her apartment, Lt. Joe Kenda focuses his investigation on a man with whom she danced the night before.

After Lourdes Riddle in found strangled to death in the trunk of her car, homicide detective Joe Kenda follows the trail through a twisting maze of military and cultural secrets. Just what was Lourdes doing behind her husband's back?