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#4 in the Detective Inspector Carol Ashton Mystery series finds Carol at an emotional impasse. Sybil, Carol's girlfriend, is sick of leading the closeted life that Carol insists upon and she begins to branch out to people in the community. Carol knows that being a lesbian is not a disease and she accepts who she is but she wants to keep her private life private, unfortunately this may cost her more than she bargained for. Pushing people away is so much easier than confiding in them and while she tries to keep her walls up she realizes that something has to give but will it be her career or her personal life. While investigating the murder of her Aunt's friend's son she comes across more hostility concerning homosexuality but was this the root cause of the murder. Bryce Darcy lay motionless in his sister Charlotte's studio, while Charlotte is sitting on a bench bloodied and the murder weapon just inches from her. Charlotte is completely out of it and is immediately taken to a family psychiatrist where it turns out that she has been taking amphetamines, but is it intentional or was she drugged to take the wrap for the murder. As the investigation deepens Carol must sort out the lies from the truth since everyone seems to be pointing fingers at someone else and discover the real killer so an innocent woman doesn't go to jail. All this is weighing on Carol as she is dealing with the pressures of her job, relationships, and a new detective in the station that her partner Mark Bourke is mentoring. Is it jealousy, stress, anger, or just unhappiness that make Carol question everything about her life and will she find the answers she needs through the people she knows or the solitude that she thinks she needs.