Where do you go when there's nowhere you want to go? Who do you speak with when the only person you want to talk to is dead? Someone has killed his love, Sherry St. Claire; not only killed her but tortured her first. She had saved private investigator John Dark. She had pulled him out of a dark downward spiral, and now she is dead. Someone is going to pay, Dark will see to that. But this is John Dark, and this is East St. Louis, so this case, his most personal case yet, will be far from easy, it will be far from clean, and the twists, turns, bruises, and blood will just keep coming. But this is John Dark, and this is East St. Louis, and neither would have it any other way.