Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner's death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Rose, convicted of the crimes, has been locked in the state pen for years. But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cozy cabin in the woods, a murderer with Rose's unmistakable...

Alex McKnight finds himself in over his head when he and his occasional partner, Leon Prudell, agree to help Randy Wilkins, his old minor league teammate, find Randy's old flame, a woman he had walked away from nearly thirty years before.

His work follows depressed private detective Alex McKnight into his personal life when the poker game he joins is robbed at gunpoint and he finds himself compelled to catch the thief.