Metropolitan newspaper writer Zack Walker has a knack for stumbling onto deadly stories. But it&#8217;s one that his good friend Trixie Snelling doesn&#8217;t want told that&#8217;s about to unleash a storm of trouble. As a professional dominatrix in the suburbs, Trixie has her share of secrets, but Zack has no idea what she&#8217;s really hiding when a local newspaperman threatens to do an expos&#233; on her&#8230;not until Zack finds a dead body strapped to the bondage cross in her basement dungeon.<br><br>Now Zack is implicated in a murder, Trixie is missing, and everything he thought he knew about his friend, his town, even his own marriage, reveals a darker side. Zack&#8217;s twisted trail to the truth will lead to a long-unsolved triple homicide, bikers, drug wars, and a stone-cold killer hell-bent on revenge. It&#8217;s a story that&#8217;s already cost him his job and possibly his wife, and, if Zack&#8217;s not very lucky, it will cost him his life.