So close to her relaxing Atlanta weekend that she could almost taste it, beautiful, tough, Detective Lacy Fuller and her partner Chet Avery were suddenly assigned to a high-profile yet seemingly open-and-shut homicide case. Having found out that she was HIV positive, Shelly Farnsworth Stevens had taken out her anger on the only person she thought could have given her the illness: her husband, Todd. With one quick gunshot, the cheating bastard was out of her life. However, things are not always as they seem. Todd wasn't HIV positive and Shelly is but one of several people to have mysteriously contracted HIV in recent months. Atlanta becomes a hotbed of pandemonium as fear of a new, undiscovered mode of viral transmission seems possible. With the help of Dr. Sharon West and FBI Agent Margie Olsen, Detective Fuller uncovers a far greater evil than anyone dared imagine.