Truit Hickman is a small-time crook doing life in a California prison for the murder of his mother. But now Hickman is claiming that his confession was coerced. Enter Secada â Scoutâ Llevar, the gorgeous Internal Affairs detective who partners up with LAPD detective Shane Scully to investigate the claim. What began as a routine review is turning into something far more complicatedâ and deadly. Because some things, once started, cannot be stoppedâ ¦ Now the Hickman case is spiraling out of control as gang violence, rivaling cops, political heavyweights, and Shaneâ s dangerous attraction to Scout threaten to put an abrupt end to the investigation. And their lives.