The cops: Sergeant Eric Parker, just transferred to Riverside PD. The one who said clever stuff and looked like he'd been sent over from central casting to play the perfect partner: good-looking, single, and eight or ten years younger than his superior, Detective Janet Dunn. The case: Seven years after her ex-husband and son died in a boating accident, Virginia Walker shoots a prowler in her bedroom. When it turns out that the dead burglar on her bedroom floor is her ex-husband, many questions come to light, but she has only one: "Where's my son?"