When Justine Fraser found herself on a semester exchange programme in America, she had no idea that the quirky Nicky Bennett - a brief, steamy fling - would, years later, turn out to be one of Hollywood's biggest heart-throbs. Sexy, moody, outrageous Nicky Bennett is to die for, and when he goes missing, his enigmatic suicide note spins the media into a frenzy. Justine has been following Nicky's rise to stardom, unable to ever really let him go, and as she scans the newspaper headlines, she immediately knows that his suicide note is meant for her and her alone -- a plea for help and the lone clue to solving the mystery of his sudden disappearance. Leaving her job in London, she flies to America to find him and, with the help of former students and friends, slowly pieces together the rather surprising fragments of Nicky's history. Along the way, she realizes that the Nicky Bennett she is looking for may turn out to be an entirely different person from the one she fell in love with and discovers that the journey she has embarked on can only lead to betrayal, violence and revenge.