Twenty years ago, two young cops watched T.C Cooke, a master detective, work a murder scene in a ragged community garden in a violent D.C neighborhood. Today, a real estate rush has done everything to these streets but change them- and in the same garden, amid the same mayhem, a killer has left a body with an MO. that the three recognize fast T.C Cooke, long-since retires, is still haunted by the case he never solved. Gus Ramone is a decent cop, loyal husband, and father fighting for his son's future. And Dan Holiday hustles for a living after an ungly fall from grace. Now they come together again, hitting the new murder with a desperate, dangerous fervor. For on his hard, bloodstained soil, thay have what no one ever gets: the seeds of a second chance...