Finally, Alice Humphrey has landed her dream job managing a new art gallery in Manhattan's in-style Meatpacking District. Though Drew Campbell, the slick corporate exec who hires her, doesn't provide a lot of information about the anonymous owner or the elusive artist whose work will be featured, she puts her misgivings aside and jumps at the opportunity. Things seem to be going smoothly until the morning Alice arrives for an early meeting with Drew and finds the gallery stripped clean -- and Drew dead in the middle of the floor -- murdered.

As police start investigating the crime, Alice can't believe she's become their main suspect. Nothing is as it seems, which makes Alice look like a liar. When Drew is identified as someone else, Alice knows she's been set up -- but why and by whom? Each new piece of evidence leads to even more baffling revelations, eventually including long- held family secrets that are shocking when exposed. Will Alice be able to prove her innocence before she ends up a fatality in the evil scheme?

Alafair Burke takes readers on a roller coaster ride of surprising twists and turns as the ingenious plot develops to a shocking ending. I was glued to the pages trying to discern the answers in this compelling, fast-paced thriller.