This is a story of murder in the pursuit of the wealth and recognition which significant scientific discovery can bring. In the busy research lab of Dr. Yvette Bilodeau, the harmony of the her scientific team, is fatefully disrupted when a young graduate student, Mike Desfleur, is found murdered at his lab bench.

Detective, Brandell Young, has been taken away from his usual big city street crimes, to work the case and quickly learns about the significance of the lab's focus and the ramifications of discovery in the biomedical field. Was Mike killed because of his lady killer life style or was it something else? What was stolen from the lab and why? Yvette and Brandell with two different world views, begin a search to find the killer who is no novice in a laboratory environment.