At Cass's Diner, the new delivery guy Jung Byson wants to enlist Cassandra Raines as a private investigator. Jung's terminally ill friend, Tim Ayers, has been found dead in Lake Michigan. Jung thinks there's a murderer on the loose, but why would anyone kill a dying man? Working both sides of the law, Cass tries to point the police in the right direction, but in this follow-up to Broken Places, she uncovers sinister secrets that she may end up taking to her grave.