Travel writer and romance novelist Robin Miller is estranged from her lover, investigative writer Mary Oswell. Suddenly, shockingly, Mary is dead. Accidental death - maybe even suicide - from allergic shock, says case Detective Thomas Ryan. Impossible, insists Robin.

"Private detective Robin Miller has retreated to a cabin in the Poconos to escape the pressures of her work and the recurring, increasingly graphic memories of a childhood trauma. A fight between Noreen and ex-lover Helen signals the first interruption to Robin's refuge in peaceful Telham Village. The next event is a suspicious death... Robin, dragged in to an ever-widening homicide investigation, finds further complication when K.T. Bellflower returns...

"As a bitter winter grips New York City, Private Investigator Robin Miller is catapulted on a bone-chilling quest to save a friend's child from a horrifying death. With a vicious kidnapper on the loose and one child already presumed dead, Robin has no time to waste. The investigation rushes ahead at breakneck speed, propelling her on a collision course with a cold-hearted killer--and a former lover."--Back cover.

"Private eye Robin Miller trudged down the ice-slick sidewalk wondering which was worse: the miserably cold New York winter, the dead-end case she couldn't seem to crack, or the fact that her lover K.T. Bellflower's entire family had just descended on them like an army of Kentucky locusts. Of course, that was before Robin's sultry ex-lover arrived on the scene--and K.T.'s 15-year-old niece disappeared in the middle of Times Square!"--Back cover.