After resigning from the police force Harvill Ann Morgan, takes over her father’s private investigation business. Harvill is soon drawn into a baffling case when Jorge Marc Batista, the son of a murdered wealthy banker, approaches her with a request for help. Several years earlier, Juan Carlos Batista, Jorge’s father, was murdered at The Crown under mysterious circumstances. The prime suspect is a beautiful blonde woman who accompanied Batista to the United States from Costa Rica. Despite extensive police investigation, the case soon goes cold, when the woman vanishes without a trace.
The victim’s son asks Harvill to look in the case and if possible, uncover the truth behind his father’s death. As Harvill digs deeper into the investigation, she uncovers shocking family secrets, dangerous conspiracies, and a complex web of lies. The more she unravels, the more she realizes the past is never truly buried, and the stakes are higher than she ever imagined. Upon accepting the case Harvill has put the reputation of her father, the agency and herself on the line. Although this is a decades cold case failure is not an option to Harvill.