Harlem private eye SJ Rook wants to forget his past. Ex-soldier, ex-drunk, ex-tramp are titles he’s eager to bur. He’s building a new life at a neighborhood detective agency. And he’s working on a solid relationship with his crime-fighting partner, Sabrina Ross. Then, without warning, Rook’s past returns with a vengeance in the enticing form of his ex-wife. Annie Perry is a self-made millionaire who is confident and alluring enough to rekindle feelings Rook thought he’d left far behind. When Annie is murdered shortly after their reunion, her death sends Rook over the edge. In his quest to find her killers, he digs into the fraught campus politics of an elite university. Rook learns that envy, greed, and fraud are not merely academic.