Leaving her position in the Kansas City Police Department for a job as the chief of a small-town campus police force, Skeet Bannion investigates the murder of a student editor and untangles involvements at the highest levels of the college.

"Skeet's Cherokee grandmother has come to live with her and her teenage ward Brian, and Skeet is still trying to adjust to the change while also keeping the peace on the local college campus. Then Ash Mowbray, a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks, comes back to Brewster as a wealthy developer, pushing plans to build a shopping mall on the outskirts of town that will destroy the town square businesses. The town council is split on his proposal,...