After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery
novelist Grace McCabe decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, who’s
embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce. Arriving in
D.C., Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run-down
neighbourhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing
her meagre teacher’s salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator.
According to Kathleen, Fantasy, Inc., guarantees its employees
ironclad anonymity. But Grace has her doubts—which are confirmed one
horrifying cherry-blossom-scented night when one of Fantasy, Inc.’s
operators is murdered. As Grace is drawn to help solve the crime,
her life turns into a scene from one of her own books. Yet as one of
her biggest fans, investigator Ed Jackson, warns her: This isn’t
fiction. Real people die—and Grace could be next. For she’s setting
a trap for a killer more twisted than anything she could imagine.
And not even Ed may be able to protect her from a rendezvous with
lust and death. |