Wild at heart, professor Serene Ransom needs something hot for a cold Minnesota night. Clancy fits the bill, a sexy bartender with a violent past and a load of gun. All he needs is a reason to use it. Serene gives it to him. With their first victim blasted by a 12 gauge shotgun, the two Reckless lovers are taking it on the lam. For St Paul homicide detective Paris murphy, it's a baffling case. No witnesses, no body, and too vanished suspects. As a surprising connection emerges, so does an even greater and more intimate threat. Paris is being pulled closer to a mysterious woman with the score to settle, and deeper into darkness than ever before.