When David Perry confides the sordid details of his bitter divorce to a sympathetic stranger, he hardly ever imagines the nightmare he’d unleash. Right now his socialite wife is normally deceased, brutally murdered by a man who will stop at nothing to obtain what he desires… Veteran San Francisco homicide detective Jane Candiotti under no circumstances allows her personal emotions to hinder the work – until Jenna Perry is found strangled in the hillsides of Marin County. Now to discover the reality, Jane must dig in to the secrets from the city’s most effective family members, a hunt which will pull her inextricably closer to David and his youthful daughter…and to the cold-blooded killer stalking their every move.