Normally, Buck Creek, North Carolina and Tampa, Florida, would not have much in common. Not so in the case of the murder of Jefferson Comstock Jr. of Comstock Land Developers headquartered in Tampa. Shot and killed while acquiring property in Buck Creek for the Logan Lake Condominiums, Junior's influential father insists on the Tampa PD sending help to the local sheriff, Roy Harper, in Buck Creek. Sheriff Roy's friend, former NYPD officer and now Atlanta Private Investigator Taylor McCann, is in Buck Creek on vacation to "do a little trout fishing." Thea Mikos is from the Greek community of Tarpon Springs, Florida. She had worked for the NYPD after graduation from the police academy in Forsythe, Georgia. She is currently a detective for the Tampa PD. Taylor and Thea had been in a relationship while in New York. Both had gone their separate ways when the relationship ended. Jefferson Comstock Junior's murder brought them back together. As the body count rises in the Tampa Bay area, PI Taylor McCann, his assistant David Hathaway, and Detective Thea Mikos, unravel the jig-saw puzzle of clues in both the Tampa Bay area and North Carolina.