When a couple of old gangsters get rubbed out, hard-nosed female investigative reporter Riley Gavin and laid-back ex-military policeman Frank Palmer must find out who did it. It's an assignment that follows a bloody trail and sparks a chain of grisly murders. As they dig, Riley and Frank uncover a deadly web of vendettas, double crosses, and hatred in an underworld that's at war with itself. But this is one story that soon gets too personal - as Riley discovers dark forces that will stop at nothing to silence her.