As the new owner of Stronghold Investigations, Bexley Squires struggles to solve her biggest mystery yet-one that hits far too close to home.

Amidst revisiting a painful past and planning for a potentially more painful future with Brewer Hawkins, Bexley's given unfortunate news that changes everything. While attempting to make sense of an unfathomable scenario, she's offered a substantial reward to solve a case for a mob princess that involves the upmost secrecy.

By the time she discovers an inanimate object is the key-pun intended-to something more substantial than a simple theft, it'll be too late. She'll find herself knee-deep in another family's war while trying to make peace with her own.