When Jenny Brady and her friend Dora hike into the desert they discover the body of a murdered Phoenix heiress, abandoned to scavengers and the elements. Sheriff Brady fears the traumatic damage that her daughter's grim discovery may have inflicted on the frightened teenager. Now her job is to find the dead woman's lowlife husband, who cleaned out their accounts before he vanished. The stakes get drastically higher in short order when something happens to Dora that hits Joanna like a runaway truck. Someone believes that the two girls were where they shouldn't have been two nights earlier are now loose ends that need to be tied up. And Joanna's own Jenny may very well be the next item on a killer's bloody agenda.