New Orleans musician, Clementine "Q" Toledano is on a roll: new home, new tunes, and a soon-to-be newly minted fiancé. But in a city where everyone knows someone who has died of unnatural causes, the good times don't roll for long; and no one knows that better than Q. When the discovery of a dead body ties to a trail of broken women - a trail that leads right to her own front door - a vengeful NOPD lieutenant from Q's past turns up, dead set on destroying her new-found happiness. It's up to Q to catch the killer before another innocent man goes to Angola for a crime they didn't commit. With no one to trust, Q must accept help from an unlikely source, while a killer is watching; waiting for the time when he can break her, too