Gill Kranish, Hollywood producer. Genius. Sensualist. Manipulator. Anyone could be out to destroy him . . . .

Kranish is a legend -- and his new TV movie, Night Flames, promises to be his most spectacular. But one night Kranish receives a videotape of the ghastly, explosive murder of one of his actors accompanied by a note saying "THIS IS THE FIRST."

Ex-police detective Mike McCleary, now running a private investigation agency with his wife, Quin St. James, in Kranish's closest friend. As Quin and Mike enter the celluloid world of Gill Kranish, they use good old-fashioned police methods and something more unusual -- searching their minds for that flash of light that will link the killer with the crime.