Two months after being ambushed in his own living room and losing his fiancé, and two close detective friends in a shootout with the brother of Mexican Mafia kingpin Miguel Placido, Kenny Marquette was released from Ashford General Hospital. Going back to the house he had called home for the past dozen years was not an option. The place held too many bad memories. When he told his former boss, Peter Grafton, that he was thinking of relocating in New York, Grafton gave him the keys to his spacious Upper East Side condo and told him to stay as long as he wanted. Shortly after arriving in the Big Apple Kenny is drawn into an investigation to find the man who killed Grafton's wife.