On a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of presidential candidate Robert Colgate's closest friend is kidnapped. The abduction rocks the nation's capital, but no one is prepared for the bombshell about to hit the city, an explosive development that erupts when Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the murder of a Washington, D.C. call girl--and a killer whom no one will see...

The seemingly perfect marriage of Illinois senator and presidential aspirant Lyle Simmons is held up to harsh public scrutiny when he arrives home from a fundraiser one night to find his wife, Jeanette, has been brutally murdered, and as Washington D.C. detective Charles Chang looks for answers, Simmons' longtime friend Phil Rotondi, a one-time suitor of Jeanette's, must decide whether or not to reveal what he knows.

Mac Smith and his wife Annabel Reed-Smith investigate the murder of a young opera singer, only to become involved in international intrigue, informers, and terror alerts in Iraq.

The sleuthing duo, Mac Smith and Annabel Reed, are married in the cathedral's Bethlehem Chapel and then a violent murder shatters the tranquility of their honeymoon.