Brutally murdered in an Orlando townhouse, Topaz Bonnefille was a cipher, a zero, a beautiful woman in her late thirties with no past and suddenly, no future. There are no leads and the case is languishing. A compassionate, elderly neighbor, a woman of means who was her only friend, hires Private Investigator Joe Garrett to find and notify Topaz Bonnefille's family... if she has one. Joe enlists the help of his associate and lover, body language expert Julie O'Hara. They find an old family Bible that leads to New Orleans... and an outcome nobody expected...