With his Orthodox Jewish girlfriend, Rina Lazarus, thousands of miles away in New York wrestling with his marriage proposal, LAPD detective Pete Decker is lonelier than usual on his morning drive. Until he sees a two-year- old child covered in blood and bee stings.

The child doesn't belong to anyone in the housing complex she's found near, but Decker assumes she must have a family. By the time Rina comes back to town, Decker is obsessed with the case—especially when he stumbles onto a grisly quadruple murder scene and learns what can happen when passion turns into a fatal blood feud. . . .