When work follows you home... Nothing completes a long, hot summer day like a little kidnapping, as Clarke Lantham just learned. Strapped to a chair by mercenaries, baking under hot lights at the point of a gun, he's forced to recount the most baffling case of his career. When eccentric billionaire hacker Earl Whitaker was framed for murder and called Clarke Lantham Investigations for help, it sent Lantham and his team into the deepest, darkest mystery in their history. Dodging the Bay Area surveillance grid, rubbing shoulders with muggers, mercenaries, and homicidal maniacs, the case went unsolved, unresolved, and cold as a buried-and-broken heart. But cold cases have a way of catching fire. And some secrets can't help but come to light...even when they're better left in the shadows.