
The coroner called it suicide, but to Tess it means the fear of her own fate. Nearly a year ago Tess Binder's father washed up on the beach with a bullet in his ear.

She's a stunningly beautiful, sexually spirited three-time divorcee from Newport Beach-capital of California's Golden Orange, where wallets are fat, bikinis are skimpy, and cosmetic surgery is one sure way to a billionaire's bank account. Never before has he come up against anyone like Tess Binder. Ever since, he's been fighting a bad back, fighting the bottle, fighting his conscience. When forty-year-old cop Winnie Farlowe lost his shield, he lost the only protection he had.
