The murder of a building contractor is discovered in a posh hotel room in Broadminster -- yet Detective Chief Inspector Neil Paget sees more at the crime scene than a stabbing by a local prostitute. Convinced that the killer had targeted the victim with a vengeance, and that the missing prostitute was a witness, Paget's investigation to find her uncovers a mass of secrets, vendettas, greed and duplicity. As the killer plots and the terrified young prostitute hides, Paget must race against time -- and a killer -- to keep her alive.