Serenity Estates, Port St. Lucie, Florida, 2018. A human skull, buried over twenty years earlier, has been uncovered by the construction crew of the new fifty-five plus housing development. Dynamite detective Lisa March, reluctantly teamed with a new, polar opposite partner, JoJo Worthington, is given the challenging assignment to figure out who the victim is and who was responsible for his death.

The partners' roller coaster path to solving these mysteries leads them all across the Sunshine State, presents a cast of intriguing suspects, and forges a new respect and appreciation for each other, until they are finally able to close the case of the DEVELOPING MURDER.