Woman murdered in New Iberia. The body of a second woman has not been recovered. Homicide Detective Blue Black Beauvais has several suspects in Belle Terre Plantation, all belonging to one of the most influential families in Louisiana and the USA. Exquisite Celeste has been beaten and raped, Bettina Townsend-St. Clair shot to death. Billy Bob Townsend, son of a prominent New Orleans family of attorneys and Bettina's husband was found shot at the murder scene. The St. Clair extended family comes to Belle Terre to pay their last respects to the last St. Clair in Warren St. Clair's family line and to get his fortune. Someone has attempted to kill Warren Beauvais St. Clair repeatedly. And in all of this mystery, someone is killing men off.