Is love courage by another name, the place you must go when you know you cannot do so? Garland Doyle is investigating the murder of her friend, Harry Moore, famous author, notorious womanizer, all round bad boy. Is it a mob hit? Did his wife, daughter or mistress take him out? Was he executed to stop his last book being published?The only certainty: the gunman's coming after Garland. Nic Girard know this, knows he has to shut this thing down, protect Garland, whatever the cost. Hired by Harry's wife, Annabel to find her husband's assassin, Nic also knows he has been set up, but by whom and why? Garland and Nic uncover the darkest depravity beneath the secrets and lies that bind, destroy and kill victims and perpetrators alike, but can they know, beyond a reasonable doubt, whose finger was on the trigger of the gun that killed Harry?