Back from a stint in Monterey, where her love life took a tumble, Nina Reilly has returned to her South Lake Tahoe law office Two years earlier, the wife of a new cilent had been killed during a casino-district robbery The police still have no suspects Three students witnesses, the robbery victims, lied about their identities and are hiding outside California and the reach of the court Nina tracks down two of the witnesses in Europe, in a village near where her ex-lover and father of her teenage son lives Threatened with exposure by Nina's activities, someone sets in motion a string of violence to silence her for good