For gay New Orleans private eye Chanse MacLeod, it seemed like a simple case: find out who was black- mailing his pretty-boy client's rich, closeted boyfriend, collect a nice cheque and take some time off. But then the pretty boy turns up dead in what looks like a hate crime and the whole gay community of New Orleans is up in arms, demanding justice. In the stifling heat of a New Orleans summer, Chanse begins searching for an extremely clever killer on a trail that takes him from the very bottom of society to the top, knowing he must find the killer before the entire city explodes.