Having returned to Lake Tahoe after a stint in California, Nina Reilly is getting back to work, investigating an unsolved murder that happened outside a Tahoe casino two years before. As she tries to unravel the mystery of that violent night, a harrowing journey begins - one that takes her from Tahoe's dark underworld to a prestigious East Coast university and to Europe, where an emotional reunion with the father of her teenage son awaits her.
