Everybody loved adoption guru Sam Brennan, a compulsive collector who made his life’s work the creation of adoptive families and reunion of birth relatives-until somebody beat him to death with a statuette of Michael Jackson. San Diego Homicide Detective Roxanne Prescott takes on the baffling murder and looks for answers in Brennan’s contradictory past, among the women who loved him, and in the business deals that formed the framework of his rags-to-riches life and death.