As the 1970s begin, JT Ellington has stepped away from the private-eye game to scratch a living, respectable at last, as a school caretaker. But in this fourth book in the Windrush Noir series (following Restless Coffins), a hardnosed cop has a job for him—a young man, Nikhil Suresh, has disappeared hours before his wedding. Reluctantly investigating, Ellington is plunged deep into a demi-monde of vice, violence, and forbidden passion, and a malevolent enemy is intent on destroying him.