They're a perfect team: four tough, smart women who each have their own approach to life, law, and love. But assistant prosecutor Shannon Lynch has just broken ranks, falling for an ambitious politician whose idea of foreplay involves flirtation, caresses—and a confession of murder.Shannon knows she should run the other way. But something about tall, twinkling-eyed Connecticut senator Scott Boardman keeps her coming back—even while her office is trying to nail him for murdering his wife and her rich female lover. Shannon's friends—Marianna, Laurie, and Beth—are trying to convince their boss, Rhode Island attorney general Vincent "the Pig" Piganno, not to fire her, but then Shannon lands at the scene of another murder—and this time she's a suspect. Now the man she can't resist has led her into a mess she can't escape—a realm of bluebloods and bloodlust that could cost her not just her career but her life....From the Paperback...

They're overworked, underpaid, and unstoppable: four young women in a big-city attorney general's office. But when best friends Marianna, Laurie, Shannon, and Beth find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, it's not just their careers that are in danger--it's their lives.It's after midnight when a young coed's body is thrown from a car--right before their eyes. When their boss finds out that their presence at the scene might jeopardize the prosecution, Marianna takes the fall, exiled to a job inside an ivy-walled private college--where the murdered girl had been a student. Suddenly Marianna is in the eye of the storm alone as a vicious killer strikes again...and again. With no one to trust on either side of the law except themselves and a secretive ex-cop, Marianna, Laurie, Shannon, and Beth will have to join all their smarts, savvy, and loyalty to stop the killer from taking one of their own....From the Paperback edition.