In the year 2179 police lieutenant Jasper Stone is called on to solve a high profile murder and keep a valuable house from getting into the wrong hands. At first it seems Elizabeth West was murdered by someone in her family, but the logical suspect—a disabled son—is the next to die and this time everything points to the granddaughter who had a rock-solid alibi for the first murder. Will Jewel be next? Jasper finds himself tangled in a web of complicated motives, drug smuggling, and blackmail—and protecting the woman who might be behind it all.