Jennifer's dream of being a writer died with her, but when Bishop Bone agrees to probate her estate, he begins to wonder if her death was the accident it appeared to be. Why did the monthly payments from a mysterious source end with her death? Who was the father of her son? And had the drug dealers who threatened her decided to silence her?

On the surface Jennifer's income came mostly from her edits for best-selling writers, but gossip has it that her relationships with a couple of them were closer than either man will admit. Bone's investigations threaten to reveal secrets long kept, and he suddenly finds himself in deadly danger, not just from the drug dealers, but perhaps from whoever was paying Jennifer to keep those secrets.