A report of healthy individuals dying frequently and unexpectedly at Creekside Independent Living has Paramont detectives Taylor and Samms investigating the facility. Then, during an argument between two local high school boys over the merits of a teenage girl, one boy is killed. Soon, another problem confronts the police department as teenage gangs come south from Denver and invade Paramont's east side. However, for Taylor, the main change in his life will be giving up the title of detective, as he becomes the city's new Chief of Police.

Betty L. Alt is the author or co-author of numerous books, both fiction and nonfiction. She has an M.A. from Northeast Missouri State University and has taught at several colleges and universities in the U.S. and overseas. Alt is now retired and living in Tennessee.