Clara Rinker is twenty-eight, beautiful, charmingly southern-and the best hit woman in the business. She just will go about her business, gathers her money, and goes home. Her latest strike sounds basic: a defense attorney desires a rival eliminated. No problem-until a witness survives. Clara generally knows how to deal with loose ends: cut them off, one by one, until they’re all eliminated. This time, there’s one loose end that’s hard to tremble.

Lucas Davenport does not have any idea of the toll this case is about to undertake him. Clara knows his weak places. She knows how exactly to penetrate them, and how exactly to use them. So when a woman like Clara has the advantage, no-one is safe.