A peaceful Sunday morning is transformed for gay antique dealer, Ryan Kinkaid, when he reads a report in the local newspaper of a teenage boy found dead in a field a few miles away from the Portsmouth, New Hampshire home where he lives with his partner, Ty. It's not where the body was found that concerns Ryan. It was the boy's mother's fear that her son had been killed by a bully. Bullied himself when he was younger, Ryan feels an obligation to stand up for the victim and find the killer, even though he had promised Ty last winter that he wouldn't get involved in any more dangerous pursuits. But his commitment falters when Andrew Colfax-Ty's supervisor and a younger, extremely attractive man-causes Ryan to question his lover's fidelity. As this story unfolds and his initial assumptions are refuted, emotions that Ryan has long since suppressed return and force him to ask himself whose side he is on, the victim's or the killer's.
Ryan Kinkaid and his husband, Timothy York, witness a crime that others are quick to write off as an accident. Not surprisingly, Ryan can't dismiss it so easily, even though the victim is someone he despises. In this fifth Ryan Kinkaid adventure, summer has come again. Ryan is trying to stop thinking about the events of last spring and a diversion arrives when Lavinia Walsh-Preston, the older sister of Nicholas Walsh, comes back into his life - albeit briefly. With Ty's help, they work together to discover the identity of the person who killed the cold-hearted woman by pushing her down a flight of stairs, with their only clue being the male voice they had previously heard speaking with her. Working under the radar at first, their pursuit quickly takes a new direction as the hunters become the prey. Meredith and Lauren, Jason and Eric - even Brownie - are all here again, enhancing this tale.
