Attorney Nina Reilly is haunted by her latest case, defending sixteen-year-old Nikki Zack, a friend of her son, who has been accused of killing her own uncle, and joins forces with Paul Van Wagoner to uncover the mystery surrounding Nikki.

Attorney Nina Reilly becomes caught up in a two-year-old homicide case involving a murder during a casino-district robbery when she is assigned to track down the robbery victims, all student witnesses who had lied about their identities.

At her law office in South Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly sees a client who wants to locate the remains of his son, missing nine years and presumed dead. Although she suspects that her former investigator and lover, Paul van Wagoner, may have had something to do with the son's disappearance, Nina accepts Peter Brinkman's case. Soon, caught between two body snatchers and desperate to protect Paul, Nina is forced to step outside the legal system.