The night of the New York City Policeman's Ball is shattered by the murders of a young officer, the police commissioner's wife and Lorna Story, the wife of rising star Detective Owen Story. How can three murders take place in shouting distance of a room full of cops? Devastated by his loss Owen delves into her death discovering he didn't know her at all; that she had led a life involving secrets, sex, power and domination and had been strangely involved with Simon Chandler the ambitious police commissioner who drops the hammer on Owen turning him into the most wanted criminal in the city. Owen runs for his life along a path strewn with obstacles: arrested by his brothers-in-blue in a bloody confrontation, party to his own mind-blowing escape and the last standing in a shoot out. With the help of an old friend and his partner, Owen manages to discover the killer-who was yet not the killer-in a bizarre twist of events not even God could have stopped.