This is the fifth book in the Henry Wright Mystery Series. Henry is a retired chief of police from a small town in northern Wisconsin.

He is living quietly in Palm Springs in a mid-century house with his friend Charles Knightly.

Henry is simply just about to return to Palm Springs from a fantastic mini-vacation at his girlfriend Gloria's house in California's Sierra American state Gold Country once his friend Wayne Johnson calls him to say his friend and friend Charles Knightly III has been severely abraded by a hit-and-run driver and is in a coma in Desert Hospital.

Henry and Gloria rush house to be with Charles and help Wayne numbers out if this was an accident or did person set out to murder Charles?

What is in Charles' past that person now wants him dead?