Journalist Geri LaRue is outraged when she loses the
paper's "Off the Record" column to an insufferable
colleague. To salvage her career and her waning self-
confidence, Geri needs a break—and fast. The perfect story
comes when successful businesswoman Kathleen Fowler is
found dead—her battered body dropped from the balcony of
her home to the cliffs below. But Geri doesn't have to
chase this story; she inherits it. Somehow she has been
named the murdered woman's sole beneficiary, despite never
having met her.
As Geri sets out to discover why the estate has been left
to her, everything leads back to her own troubled
childhood. A childhood she would rather forget—the foster
homes, the painful memories. And when another person is
brutally murdered, Geri realizes that the key to finding a
killer may be hidden in her own mind.