For the fans of the Carpenter/Harding series, this is a glimpse of their lives in the past: Detective Jordan Carpenter is in denial about the deteriorating relationship with her girlfriend. Work is a welcome escape, but every so often, the cases she and her partner solve, confront her with lingering ghosts of her past. Ellie Harding begins her career as a police officer, still grieving her parents but determined to follow a path she knows would make them proud. She hopes to regain the purpose and structure in her life. Their paths cross, and a story neither of them could have imagined, begins…