A woman is found brutally murdered inside her Los Angeles townhouse. Los Angeles Police detectives conclude she was the victim of a burglary gone sideways. The leads are thin and the case goes cold. Twenty-three years later, Detective Ben Malone comes across the case while temporarily assigned to the LAPD cold case homicide unit. The cold case investigation takes Malone down a path of betrayal, dark choices, and shocking turns, sending him hurtling into more trouble than he ever dreamed possible.