Detective Frank Stanton wanted to retire. His live-in lover, Paige Mallory, demanded it - a quiet exclamation point on a brilliant career. Nothing stood in his way except a broken road of unfinished business between him, his dead partner, Internal Affairs, two million in missing mob money, and the unforgiving and vengeful spirit of an executed stoolie. An informant with a head for numbers, executed for a crime he did not commit, Jimmy Powers returns from beyond the grave seeking retribution. A fiery apparition bending people, places, and time to his will, forcing the partners to relive the events leading to his death. Remembrances of the strained relationships between the two cops, the women they loved, the mobsters they hunted, and the trusts they betrayed. Before the sun of a new day can rise, Frank Stanton must face a night of terror and mystery, of lengthening shadows that hide a truth only the bravest souls could survive, let alone solve.