Joe, rescued from an orphanage by Orange County Supervisor Will Trona, embarks on a dark and dangerous quest when he vows to find out why his adoptive father, Will Trona, an Orange County politician, was murdered.
Officer Merci Rayborn's world is shaken when the cases of two murdered prostitutes make her suspect her lover, fellow officer Mike McNally, of murder and cause her to fear even worse possibilities.
Detective Merci Rayborn's abilities and judgment are drawn into question when she insists on pursuing the case of Archie Wildcraft, a promising young cop who was apparently the perpetrator of a murder/suicide attempt that left his wife dead and him hospitalized with a bullet in his head.
Homicide cop Tom McMichael must put aside generations of bad blood between the McMichael and the Braga families when he is assigned to investigate the murder of eighty-four-year-old city patriarch Pete Braga who was found bludgeoned to death.
Rescued from an orphanage by Will Trona, a politician, Joe is swept into the maelstrom of power and intimidation that surrounds his adoptive father, but when Will is murdered and Joe hunts for the killer, he learns of his father's many secrets.
