Cheyenne Donegal is a police officer on the trail of a killer--but her suspect winds up dead of an apparent suicide. Doubtful, Cheyenne keeps digging. Detective Andre Rousseau is a musician and FBI consultant who goes way back with Cheyenne--all the way back to high school, when Cheyenne s cousin was murdered by a serial killer dubbed The Mortician. With a local girl missing and her life on the line, together Andre and Cheyenne race to uncover the truth of whether the Mortician is killing again, and if the wrong man went to jail years ago. Their search will take them deep into the bayou. They both know they re too close to the case, and getting too familiar to each other...all while a killer is very near.