Private detective Sunny Randall takes the case of college student Sarah Markham, a young woman searching for her birth parents, but her investigation uncovers dangerous secrets that could also lead to painful secrets about her own past.

On the outs with her secretive mob boss lover, Sam Gianelli, Carlotta occupies herself with a seemingly routine case. She feels an immediate bond with her new client, Jessie Franklin. Right now, both women are dealing with issues of trust. For Jessie, it's the man she's soon to marry. Tipped off that he's cheating on her, she wants Carlotta to tail him. No sooner does Carlotta get a track on the likely cad, than Jessie is killed by a hit-and-run driver....

When she receives word that Paolina, the fourteen-year-old girl with whom she had been paired in a Boston mentoring program, has vanished, private detective Carlotta Carlyle embarks on her own search for the missing teen.

Bored with her assignment working undercover to seek out fraud on Boston's Big Dig project, Carlotta Carlyle moonlights by taking on the case of the missing Veronica James, an investigation that uncovers links to a vast conspiracy.