When martial arts enthusiast Carl Hunt suffers a fatal knife wound to the gut, his friends and neighbors offer few viable leads. But Kenda discovers a cache of blood evidence that proves he's being lied to.

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.