At exactly 7:30 p.m., Walter Pettibone appeared home to over a hundred friends and family shouting, ‘shock!’ It had been his birthday. Although he previously known about the planned event for weeks, the real surprise was yet to come. At 8:45 p.m., a female with emerald eyes and red locks handed him one glass of champagne. One sip of birthday bubbly, and he was dead.

The woman’s name is Julie Dockport. Nobody in the party understood who she was. But Detective Eve Dallas remembers her all as well well. Eve was personally in charge of her incarceration nearly a decade ago. And today, discrete on great behavior, she still has nothing but poor intentions. It seems she wants to fulfill Dallas again – inside a reunion neither will ignore…

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