Andrea "Blaize" McCue, Sacramento's wisecracking substance-abuse counselor fights her own food addiction by hitting the gym on a regular basis. But her weight-lifting takes a nosedive when a teenage client, Connie Donovan, is found brutally murdered.

Drawn into a past she can't outrun, she and the very appealing Detective Stephanos Zoloski butt heads when Blaize is sure the killer is Mac the Knife, a brutal rapist from her past. She escaped him once, but this time she must face her worst nightmare. . .