Now finishing the apprenticeship hours he needs to earn his private investigator's license, Tres Navarre takes a job that pulls him into the Austin and San Antonio music scene, where aspiring performers dream of Nashville and the record industry runs on grudges and money. An old contact hires him to look into a stolen demo tape connected to Miranda Daniels, a gifted young country singer on the verge of a major recording deal. The case turns deadly when a fiddle player is shot down in front of Tres, and from there the trouble multiplies: a missing tape, a producer under fire, and an agent who vanishes. Tres has to untangle a web of professional rivalries and power plays while keeping his client and her career intact. Working out of the office of his demanding boss, the case tests both his fledgling professional standing and his nerve. As in the rest of the series, the story leans on Tres's dry humor, his tai chi discipline, and his connection to Texas, here filtered through the dive bars, demo studios, and ambitions of the regional country music world. The result blends a traditional hardboiled mystery with an insider's eye for the music business and the people who claw their way through it.