Defense attorney Dismas Hardy is hired by Maya Townshend, a beautiful socialite who owns a San Francisco coffee shop and is the daughter of the city's mayor, after the shop's manager is gunned down outside the store and found with a backpack full of marijuana.

Raised by loving adoptive parents, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunt never had an interest in finding his birth family--until he gets a chilling text message from an unknown number: "How did ur mother die?" The answer is murder, and urged on by curiosity and the mysterious texter, Hunt takes on a case he never knew existed, one that has lain unsolved for decades. Hunt's birth father, twice tried but never convicted of the murder, is in...