Disgraced ex-cop Nadia Stafford now makes her living as a hitman for the mob. Known to her underworld contacts as Dee, Nadia takes her orders from a small New York crime family and doesn't lose a wink of sleep over it. She has her standards; she knows what her conscience will and will not allow. When the job is over and Dee turns back into Nadia, she runs a wilderness lodge in Canada. Dee's hits keep Nadia's lodge going, but it's the lodge that keeps Nadia going...and sane.

When one of Nadia's employees goes missing, she is immediately alarmed. She has a small staff and is fiercely protective of them. The woman, a teenage unwed mother, is considered "white trash" by the locals. Law enforcement thinks she has taken the baby and run off. When Nadia tries to point out that the girl's disappearance doesn't make any sense and needs to be looked into, her protests fall on deaf ears. Nadia realizes if there is to be an investigation, she needs to do it herself. So with the help of her mentor, Jack, she gets the ball rolling. Their investigation leads them straight into suburbia and what they stumble onto in the world of mini-vans and carefully manicured lawns turns the stomachs of even the most seasoned hitmen.

When Bantam advertises this as a thriller they aren't lying... or even exaggerating. Nadia's world is always a thrill ride and a half. Kelley Armstrong is top-notch, as usual, as she takes her readers out of the Otherworld and into the underworld.