Dane Whitelaw knows something shocking about Sheila Warren. He knows Sheila's dead. The ex special forces agent has seen a photo of her body taken on his private Florida beach...Strangled with his own tie. The crime has all the hall marks of a serial killer currently terrorising Miami, and Dane is being set up to take the blame. He just doesn't know why. When Kelsey Cunningham discovers her best friend is missing she immediately confronts Dane - Sheila's former lover. Driven by guilt and fear, Kelsey will do whatever it takes to find her. As she follows in Sheila's footsteps, with Dane her unwelcome protector, they enter a dangerous world of sex, violence and drugs. Then the body is found an all the evidence points to Dane. Now Kelsey doesn't dare trust anyone-especially the man she can no longer deny she has always loved.