A body discovered in a bedroom of his California home and the disappearance of his young wife are the start of a brand new life for Eddie Collins. Eddie is the youthful head of a successful Internet company, and the murdered man is his Chief Financial Officer, dead from a bullet to the chest. And Eddie's wife, Nina, is the logical suspect in the murder. She is nowhere to be found, but Eddie has an idea where she might be, her birthplace of the City Different of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He takes off after her.
In this tale of love, murder and betrayal, Eddie's search for Nina embroils him in Santa Fe's modern dilemma-its old southwest charm giving way to the real estate developers and outsiders with too much money. In the process, he becomes a suspect in a second murder. Finding Nina turns into something he could never have imagined, and it leads to something he never wanted to know.