Everybody loved adoption guru Sam Brennan, the founder and head of Adoption Central, whose life’s work was the creating loving adoptive families and reuniting birth relatives—until somebody beat him to death with a statuette of Michael Jackson. Who could have wanted to hurt the man who did such wonderful things for so many grateful people? Roxanne Prescott, now a detective in the San Diego Sheriff’s Department, is part of the team investigating the mysterious murder. Roxanne must wrestle her own haunting nightmare, along with rookie nerves and a hiden killer from the past. Cannon"s lively, sassy writing zones in on contemporary Southern California lifestyles and characters.