Nina's not sleeping much these days. She's recovering from a great loss,
haunted by a killer who may still be tracking her, and working on a
tough new case. Her client is a sixteen-year-old girl charged with
first-degree murder. Nikki Zack is a rebel, a thief, and the best friend
of Nina's son, Bob. Did she steal something from her uncle, a prominent
plastic surgeon, and then kill him with an ancient samurai sword? To
help find out, Nina calls in private investigator Paul Van Wagoner, her
ex-lover and constant ally, whose bravado doesn't betray his own
sleepless nights. As they work through the twisting lies surrounding
Nikki, it becomes brutally clear to Nina that she must pull an ace out
of her sleeve in the courtroom to save her client, and solve the mystery
surrounding Paul to save herself.