New life has come to Cleveland. But old hatreds never die.

He calls it the Cleveland connection. The legacy of blood ties that reaches back to another time and another land and fills tis city with an ethnic buzz. Now private eye Milan Jacovich has followed that connection in search of an old Serbian immigrant gone missing. And where it leads him is muder -- and beyond.

Who hated an old man -- a man who survived the fires of World War II -- enough to kill him? Milan knows Cleveland, its people, and its ways better than anyone. But as he makes his way through a world ofhidden violence, he's just begining to see the shadows: where friends and family share secrets and blood betrayals, and old hatreds die hard.