High in the mountains above Colorado Springs, a woman's frozen body is found along a switchback road. Before investigators can determine who's responsible for her death, they'll need to figure out what brought her here in the first place.

Hikers come across the nude body of a man who has been bound and beaten to death; when the victim's checkered past comes to light, Joe Kenda must wade through a laundry list of potential suspects to find his killer.