L. A. Times reporter Eve Diamond has been looking forward to a romantic date with her new love, Silvio Aguilar: an opening night at the theatre, cocktails and the night ahead...But when the play's unstable leading lady Catarina Velosi fails to appear, Eve learns that she and Silvio share a complicated past. Dispatched by his unsavoury friend Alfonso to Catarina's home, Silvo finds a messy scene suggesting abduction - or worse. Stifling her feelings of betrayal, Eve must fight to clear Silvio's name. She knows he is innocent...or does she?