Ambitious Assistant County Prosecutor and head of the Prosecutor's homicide unit, Stella Marz, finds not only her ambition but her survival threatened when her ex-lover Jack Kovak, a drug lawyer, is murdered and Stella leads the investigation.
Spindler's latest romantic suspense moves fast and takes no prisoners. Kate and Richard Ryan, the perfect couple (money, good looks, successful power careers, great house on Lake Pontchartrain), adopt a baby girl to make their lives complete. Unbeknownst to them, the birth mother, Julianna, a young woman on the run from her ex-lover, CIA contract-killer John Powers, is more than a tad unhinged. Unable to tear herself from the beautiful lives of the Ryans, Julianna falls for Richard and becomes his mistress.
When the serial killer he caught years before escapes from captivity, Lucas Davenport uses the occasion to draw his ex-lover into an investigation of rogue cops who have already committed three dozen murders.
