Ronda Reynolds from childhood was determined to become the first Washingtonian state trooper. Although she had high dreams she barely had a chance to explore them. Ronda did not have good taste in men and for that reason she was divorced once and almost completed a second one. On the last night of her second marriage, she was found with gun shot in the head. The county police department declared it a suicide; however, her mother, Barb Thompson, never truly accepted that her daughter committed suicide. The book is mostly about the 11 year crusade of Barb Thompson to clear her daughter 's name.
Throughout the book the author claims that it was apparent that Ronda would never commit suicide. Through what Barb believed: " ' Your daughter commit suicide.