The key to a beautiful woman's tragic death is locked in a
dog's broken heart.
P.I. Rachel Alexander is stepping into a dead woman's life.
Hired by the young t'ai chi teacher's grieving parents,
Rachel is determined to find out why their apparently happy
daughter jumped from the window of her Greenwich Village
martial arts studio. Wearing Lisa's clothes, studying with
her mentor, meeting her friends, provoking her enemies,
Rachel soon learns that even with her pit bull, Dashiell, at
her side, the path to enlightenment is a dangerous place to be.
With the answer Rachel seeks as difficult to fathom as a Zen
riddle, yet as close by as the victim's sad-eyed Akita, one
truth begins to unfold: Lisa never would have abandoned her
dog without a cruel push....