Raised by loving adoptive parents, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunt never had an interest in finding his birth family --- until he gets a chilling text message from an unknown number: "How did ur mother die?"

Homicide detective Abe Glitsky barely recovered from the case of Ro Curtlee, heir to a powerful San Francisco family. After Ro wins a retrial, the original trial’s star witness is brutally killed. When a second fire claims a participant in the case, Abe is convinced: Ro is out for revenge.

At thirty-nine, Tallie Jones is a Hollywood legend. But soon it becomes clear that someone close to Tallie has been steadily funneling away enormous amounts of her money, and Tallie must trap a predator stalking her in plain sight.