Paul Capodicasa, a wealthy benefactor of Rowe Sanctuary, is bludgeoned to death in one of their blinds. Detective Bobbie Lee must solve the murder while avoiding interference from the Mafia and her district attorney uncle. She must also confront the possibility that her son is the murderer. The initial DNA analysis indicates her son may have been involved and the evidence from the murder keeps pointing her toward the same person whom she thinks may be the son she gave up for adoption. The son born to her after a rape by a man who is now trying to remove her from the case.