At an Annapolis restaurant, Private Investigator Minxy Banks is enjoying a flirtatious lunch to settle a bet with Sheriff Jack Frye. The crab cakes were barely eaten before Jack gets a text about a dead body coming ashore locally. The pale victim has no violent wounds and no blood. The Chesapeake Crime Club members-Minxy a former CIA case officer, Celia a CIA analyst, and Astrid the techy wife of the Danish Ambassador-are curious. However, when Tyler, a West Beach teenager, is kidnapped, the Chesapeake Crime Club is on the case. Working ever so closely with Sheriff Jack, whose feelings for Minxy are now obvious, the girls discover that the murder victim and Tyler share extremely rare blood and are pawns in a horrific blood enterprise. Tyler will never be safe until the masterminds behind his kidnapping are brought to justice.