In this sequel to "Degree of Guilt", Paget's well-ordered world is shattered by his love for his assistant, Terri. Her ex-husband Ricky instigates a child-custody battle for Terri's daughter, but then Ricky is found murdered and Paget finds himself the prime suspect and on trial for his life.
Arriving in New York to help plan her cousin's wedding, Terri, a beautiful Englishwoman, is powerfully drawn to Bastien, a relative of her cousin's fiance, who, unbeknownst to Terri, is a vampire thirsty for love.
A killer wants vengeance. An FBI agent wants justice. Bernadette Saint Clare is an FBI agent with a difference: she has the uncanny ability to see murders through the eyes of killers. Because of this second sight she has cracked some seemingly impossible cases...but her ability makes her a dangerous maverick in the staid environment of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Her reward is a backwater posting to Minnesota, but on her very first day a mutilated body is found: the killing is the work of a vigilante intent on settling old scores.
