A high-profile rape has drawn Sam Hagen, head of Major Crimes for Dade County, back into the moral twilight of South Beach – where his own teenage son died a year before.

Hagen’s investigation of the case only exacerbates his wife’s ongoing grief over their son’s death, broadening the gulf between them and driving him into the arms of a woman from his past. Then a key witness is found brutally murdered, and Hagen is swept into a storm of suspicion that leads, in a shocking twist, back to his own shattered family…