Emma monique is a 30-year-old private investigator in harlech, a metropolitan city in the pacific northwest, who runs her own business investigating small time cases. when emma is met with a mysterious client who offers a substantial return for the recovery of computer data that was lost to a hacker, her efforts to return this data to her client has her run in to an old friend from high school, 30-year-old kaj kejsaren, a patrol officer with the harlech police department, jarsdel division, who likewise has been on the hunt for answers to the mysterious circumstances of the death of a con artist. the con artist in question, both emma and kaj were familiar with from their teenage years when the two had likewise come together to solve two separate mysteries, a thief and a bunco con respectively, both of which tied to the same fairground that ran a larger scheme. emma and kaj must then decide whether the events in the past correlate to the present, and whether they should team up once more to solve the mystery and wider scam ahead.