A young woman is gruesomely murdered in the darkness of night, followed by a major power outage over half of the county leaving the local police force maxed out as they attempt to find the murderer amid chaos in the streets. Then, with First Assistant D.A. Dana Miller’s suspicion that charges against a defendant in a change of venue trial bears a striking similarity to the recent homicide in Chamberton, D.A. Michael Callaghan, once again, calls on Nick Quinn to come out of retirement to figure out what is actually going on.