The twenty-year-old case of three slain women is on Kaua'i and the local force isn't likely to cooperate with an O'ahu PI. Then another woman fitting the victims' profiles goes missing and the cold case appears to turn warm. Is the Barking Sands Strangler back?

Kai still begs off. Until his girlfriend who's just discovered she's pregnant backs the grieving mother and he hops a plane to Kaua'i. But can he pull off what two decades of police work couldn't? Or wrap his mind around the prospect of parenthood?