"Forensic expert Maggie Gardiner discovers troubling new details about her colleague Jack Renner, a homicide detective with a brutal approach to law and order, when the two infiltrate the cutthroat world of high-stakes finance to solve a murder"--

In a luxurious mansion on the outskirts of Cleveland, Joanna Moorehouse's body lies gutted in a pool of blood on the marble floor. The victim was the founder of Sterling Financial; the killer could be any one of her associates. Gardiner recognizes the blood-soaked handiwork of a killer who has committed the most heinous of crimes-- and will continue killing until he is stopped. Burdened with unbearable secrets, she must make an agonizing choice, while her conscience keeps telling her: she's next.