Desperate for something to do in the sleepy New Mexican town, Meg Witt, a Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist, takes on the job of marketing maven for the meat packing company for which her husband is contracting. Everything is going along swimmingly until her new boss in a fit of anger flings the promotional plans at her and throws her out of his office. Things go from bad to worse when the man ends up drown in one of his own meat curing vats and her husband, Mark, becomes the prime suspect. The company town is rife with suspects who were angry enough to have ended his tyrannical reign, but they close ranks to protect their own making Meg’s job of finding the true killer dangerously challenging.