She doesn't exactly wish her cheating, lying, thieving business partner would die, but when Roxy Halstead finds Mandy Garson's body on the floor of their office, she figures she'll be the main suspect.

If the police discover dark secrets from her past, she'll go to jail. Which might be the safest place, she soon discovers, after somebody tries to run her off the road.

When Roxy's brother Nick is killed, she seeks help from the gym rat in her apartment building. Kane Llewelyn, a six-foot-five percussionist with the National Symphony Orchestra, is more than happy to watch Roxy's back on a journey that involves jealousy, spite, betrayal, horror, fear, and grief, bracketed at each end by the discovery of a dead body.