Eugenie Escousse is a thirty-nine year old married career woman and her biological clock is ticking. For the past year she has undergone monthly donor inseminations, fertility medications, lab tests, and surgery--all with negative pregnancy results. Tyler Tanner is the owner of the Shreveport Fertility Institute located in downtown Shreveport. She provides doctors with donor sperm for their patients. Tyler is proud of her fertility institute, but she is a woman haunted by her past. Her violent reaction to men lead to murder. Detective Bo Hache of the Shreveport Police Department is busy investigating drive-by shootings and drug dealers--until someone starts murdering pregnant women. Retired police chief Bubba Nelson, an old man born during the time of extreme racism, hires out to the elite as a private investigator, shadowing blackmailers and keeping safe family secrets. Bubba Nelson and Detective Hache butt heads as they become tangled in each other's investigations, which will lead to the murderer of the pregnant women.