After being kidnapped and almost killed by a psychopath, Darla "Dar" Kelly's only hope was for a normal life with her new business, The Contented Canine. But when she stumbles across evidence that her recently murdered father had hired a PI —and had kept it from her — her life becomes anything but normal. As she delves deeper into her father's secret, bizarre things start happening to her that she can't explain, and she suspects someone doesn't want her to find answers.
When she crosses paths with her old friend Detective Mike Shafer, new secrets emerge -and murders begin to multiply. Can his John Doe case - a guy that everyone seems to want dead, pull Dar deeper into danger? Strange connections will have Dar struggling to survive the answers once again.