When a funeral parlor employee goes missing， her car left at the funeral home， and the incinerator filled with ashes and left on overnight， Detectives Charli Cross and Matthew Childe are called in for a suspected homicide。

While investigating， Charli discovers two other employees are missing， and when one of the employees ends up murdered， the third suspect comes clean and reveals they had been getting rid of bodies for the mafia。

Now Charli needs to link the mafia to the disappearance of Candace and death of her coworker while keeping her superiors and the FBI off her back。