"It is the spring of 1968. After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the city of Chicago is a powder keg ready to explode. Against this tense backdrop live Woodson and Ivy Lisle, an elegant couple dwelling in a shabby chic apartment hotel in Cook County's Hyde Park. They are the proud heads of a large, extended family, which includes their twenty-year-old grandniece, Cassandra, a college student standing at the crossroads - and on the brink of a troubling mystery involving the missing granddaughter of an old friend." "Fearing for the girl's safety, Woody, Ivy, and Cassandra begin a determined investigation. What they uncover is a chilling link to an old murder case. Now a shattering secret of the past threatens all who try to expose it."--BOOK JACKET.