January Black Ice Mary Catherine Collier is called to the penthouse apartment of the city's very rich, most influential lawyer, Detrick Bittmor. He has a very personal assignment for her. It involves a mysterious young man who sits on a park bench every day at noon and stares up at Bittmor's top floor apartment. Mary Catherine, or Cat, as she's better known, has a soft spot for this lawyer with a nasty reputation. There's something about this old man she likes, and even finds charming. Detrick Bittmor thinks the young man on the park bench resembles a younger version of himself. He thinks this young man could be his son from an affair he had many years ago with a beautiful New Year lawyer. This man could be his only heir. And old man Bittmor isn't getting any younger.