It's a dark day when Emma Price, investigator for the New York Capital Crimes Division, wakes up in a hospital room after being savagely beaten on her way to meet Dawn Prescott, her boss and dear friend. And when Dawn is found murdered in a seedy motel room on Long Island, Emma's sure it connects with the recent assault—though the police won't believe the killing was anything but a crime of jealous passion.

Driven equally by devotion and guilt, Emma is determined to get answers, despite her concerned lover Detective Laurence Solomon's urgings that she quit. Working her way through a world of sinister and powerful men, Emma is in grave danger of being snared in the very web of duplicity, corruption, and death she's intent on exposing. But she can't back off now—because this one is personal.