Dr. Elizabeth McMan is a young beautiful world renown surgeon at Houston South's Medical Center in Texas. She spends her days putting Total Artificial Hearts in the sick and dying. She has everything she could ever dream of or ask for except she is the target of a deranged and brutal serial killer. Detective Scagleon is a brilliant hard nose twenty year veteran homicide detective in a department that boast one of the highest homicide rates in the nation. His Puerto Rican/Greek bloodline never fails to turn heads, but his razor blade sharp sense of humor keeps people at an arms length which is fine with him. He is running at full speed towards retirement one homicide at a time. When their lives collide it leaves not only them but the whole city of Houston South derailed and searching for answers and reason