A young mother-to-be is shot and left for dead. To catch her assailant, Kenda must elicit a death-bed confession from the victim herself. Then...a corpse found floating in Monument Creek leads Kenda to a mysterious encampment on a nearby riverbank.

A jealous vendetta leaves a popular DJ dead, and his killer has dropped off the map. As a newly promoted supervisor, Sgt. Joe Kenda gambles his career on a risky strategy to bring his prime suspect to justice.