When Dr. Alan Gregory's good friend Peter Arvin is found bloody and
dying on the stage of a Colorado theatre, suspicion soars that he has
become the second victim of a killer whose first prey was discovered
amid the elaborate scenery of the road company's production of the
Broadway show Miss Saigon. Alan is immediately asked to respond to two
pleas for help: one from the police, who would like a psychological
profile of the murderer, and one from Peter's widow, who is desperate to
know the meaning of her dead husband's secrets. As Alan struggles to
cope with the complexities of his new marriage and the shattering
personal consequences of his friend's murder, provocative clues lead him
down a trail that winds from the Front Range of the Rockies to the
casinos of the Colorado high country and finally to the grandeur outside
Jackson Hole, Wyoming. His journey takes him deep into Peter's past and
inevitably toward the discovery of harrowing truths about the human
heart - about the struggle for survival and the quest for forgiveness -
that seem always just out of his reach, obscured by the smoke of a
long-forgotten fire.