Jim Rook gets the shock of his life when he returns for a new semester to find something more than unpleasant in his classroom.

When an illegal immigrant seemingly falls from the sky, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jameson Rook. But when Rook's inquiry concludes that Detective Heat has arrested the wrong man for the murder, everything changes.