By all appearances, Jade Sheffield has it all; a successful career, intelligence, beauty...but a darker side of her personality has always lain in wait, threatening to eclipse her otherwise conventional life. She becomes involved with Angelo Morley, a respected cardiac surgeon with a dark underworld background and an even darker personality, but is incensed to discover he is married and has been using her as a pawn in his latest scam. When she accidentally kills his wife in a fit of rage, she decides on a course of revenge and self-preservation. But her crime is discovered by the person closest to her. Could she kill a second time in cold blood to protect herself - and risk losing herself to the darkness forever?