When Detective Lucas Davenport is called to the white-stuccoed house, he knows it s for no usual case. For one thing, the strangulation victim is Alie e Maison: as models go, one of the biggest. For another, there are a few small complications. Such as the drugs in her body and the fact that one of Lucas s own men is a suspect. Such as the surprise they are all about to find when they search the house: a second body, stuffed in a closet. The whole case is going to be like this, Lucas knows - secrets piled upon secrets, the ground shifting constantly under his feet. But even he cannot suspect the earth tremors he is about to feel, when an old lover comes back into his life, a married woman now... whose own secrets may turn out to be the most dangerous ones of all...