When an animal rights activist is killed by a hit-and-run
driver on an icy Cambridge street, music critic Theda
Krakow can’t get too upset. The victim cared more for wild
animals than for people, and had no use at all for
domesticated pets, such as the black-and-white cat Musetta
that Theda adores. Besides, Theda is caught up in
investigating the rise of a dangerous new designer drug
that threatens the musicians and fans who make up the club
scene she considers her second home. But when the feline-
friendly writer learns that the accident victim was
defying her own radical group to rescue feral cats on the
eve of a ferocious winter storm, she puts her own
prejudices aside to help out. As Theda and her buddy, the
punk-rock shelter owner Violet, race to save these half-
wild felines from the freezing New England winter, they
uncover simmering tensions that make the activist’s death
seem more than an accident. Could a friend have been the
fatal driver? Is Violet more involved with the extremist
group than she’s let on? Even while kittens are at risk
and the new drug hits close to home, Theda tries to hang
onto her journalistic objectivity. But when the threats
become more personal and Musetta goes missing, Theda risks
her reputation, her career, and possibly her life as the
word “deadline” takes on a whole new meaning.
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