With his new PI license, and an arrangement to help out Augustus Graham at the Fort Worth PD, whenever needed, Kelly McWinter is back in the saddle again. Just in time to catch a call from good friend Stella Davis. Stella's niece Marcy is an up and coming young singer from Nashville and she's pregnant. The married lover is a playboy named Alex Wyatt and Stella's afraid Marcy is about to get hung out to dry. Kelly agrees to look into the case and heads for Houston to meet up with Stella.

Hours later Alex Wyatt is dead and Marcy is the number one suspect.

Kelly will need all his skills to save Marcy. The case if fraught with unexpected twists and turns. Everyone he encounters seems to have something to hide, and when he reluctantly agrees to help Alex's not so grieving widow trap a nasty blackmailer, Kelly finds his two cases headed for a collision that just might put an end to his fledgling detective career – permanently.