Successful L.A. literary agent Mary Beth Conahan has come a long way from her troubled past. But when her ex-husband and one of her bestselling authors are killed in the same week, Mary Beth finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation. As if that's not bad enougth, an old school friend shows up in the dead of night. L:indy's wealthy husband has thrown her out on the streets, and denied her access to their desperately ill child. Mary Beth can't turn her old friend away, and almost immediately the women find themselves in danger. As they join forces to protect themselves from a killer and gain access to Linda's child, they discover deadly secrets that someone is desperate to hide...