When a well-known local television personality falls from Minneapolis' famous Foshay Tower under deeply suspicious circumstances, a sinister series of events begins to unfold. Jane Lawless and her friend, Cordelia Thorn, open investigations and find a tight-knit community of writers, artists and poets, all with connections to the deceased. Then, as a killer is about to be revealed, the balance of power makes a deadly shift and Jane begins to wonder if she in over her head.