Kate Stevens hasn't seen Cole Cutchins in years, but she sure didn't want to see him like this. Cole, a jazz trumpeter and leader of a band on tour, is caught at the end of an ever-tightening noose as the main suspect in the murder of a fellow muscician. Now it's up to Kate to prove him innocent. She and her best friend, Vivi Lawrence, find themselves in the seany and dangerous world of Fort Worth's nightlife in an all-out attempt to do just that.