Catherine Coulter

Sunday Cavendish is the woman everyone loves to hate. Independent, outspoken and brazenly sexy, she's clearly the star of the popular soap opera, Born To Be Wild, despite her character's machinations.

But Mary Lisa Beverly isn't Sunday - except in front of the cameras. So when a car practically runs her over in idyllic Malibu, she realizes she needs some time off to escape. Returning home to Oregon, quickly reminds her why she left three years ago. Her ex-fiancé and the sister she found in bed with him are now married, her mother barely tolerates her, and she can't remember the last time she had a date. Her father alone is her refuge, that is, until she meets someone off-limits.

When the attacks on her life continue after her return to LaLaLand, Mary Lisa turns to her friends and neighbors, her true family, for support. But she doesn't expect to turn to the last man she ever expected to show up on her doorstep. With the threat of danger lurking in every shadow, Mary Lisa must learn to trust her hometown adversary with her life and her heart.

A long weekend in the Poconos is cut short when FBI agents Sherlock and Savich are helicoptered back to Washington, DC to lead the investigation into the brutal murder of a Supreme Court Justice. Savich allows Markham, an investigative reporter for the Washington Post, to partner with local Metro Police liaison Ben Raven, since she's got the inside track -- she's the stepdaughter of the murdered Justice. Is it a terrorist act? Or something more personal?