When Tennessee private investigator Donald Youngblood solved the Fairchild case he vowed never again to go hunting for a missing person. With live-in-love and Mountain Center cop, Mary Sanders, and his faithful black Standard Poodle, Jake, Dan's life has settled back into its old routine.
All of that is about to change. Avery young, very pretty and very persuasive blue-eyed, blonde female shows up in his office one morning needing help finding her missing mother.
Now, Don must track down a mother gone wrong while trying to find her abandoned daughter a proper home before child welfare gets the scent. To complicate matters, an old flame, Sandy Smith, is being harassed by a former boyfriend, who is not what he appears to be, and Sandy is begging Don to do something about it.
Tracking down the missing mother with the help of his best friend and partner, Billy Two Feathers, and Dan's ever-dangerous new friend, Roy Husky, the trail of clues leads to a Las Vegas confrontation where Don comes face to face with the evil henchmen of Vegas bad boy, Victor Vargas, and nearly pays the ultimate price.