Nina Reilly, local lawyer at Lake Tahoe hears all the gamblers stories - stories of their wins, divorces, bankruptcies and overdoses. Then one gambler is murdered, and suspicion falls on the winner of the biggest jackpot in Tahoe's history, Nina's client - a girl who won't tell anyone her name.
For Nina Reilly, the mountain town of Lake Tahoe is home. It's where she forged a successful career as a tough, resourceful attorney - and raised her teenage son, Bob, alone. Back from a stint in Monterey, where her love life took a tumble, Nina has returned to her Tahoe law office with her old friends Sandy Whitefeather and Sandy's son, Wish. It isn't long before she has a new client whose wife was shot and killed during a casino-district robbery two years before. The police have no suspects, and the robbery victims, three students, lied about their identities and are hiding outside California and the reach of the court.
