Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers—both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm—are brutally killed on the same night. It doesnt leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but thats supposedly what friends are for. Now Mavis needs another favor. Tandy Willowby, one of the moms-to-be in Maviss birthing class, didnt show up for the shower. A recent emigrant from London, Tandy has few friends in New York, and no family—and she was really looking forward to the party. And when Eve enters Tandys apartment and finds a gift for Maviss shower wrapped and ready on the table—and a packed bag for the hospital still on the floor next to it—tingling runs up and down her spine. Normally, such a case would be turned over to Missing Persons. But Mavis wants no one else on the job but Eve—and Eve cant say no. Shell have to track Tandy down while simultaneously unearthing the deals and double-crosses hidden in the files of some of the citys richest and most secretive citizens, in a race against this particularly vicious killer. Luckily, her multimillionaire husband Roarkes expertise comes in handy with the number crunching. But as he mines the crucial data that will break the case wide open, Eve faces an all too real danger in the world of flesh and blood.