Lara Trudeau is the queen of the dance floor. She's won every ballroom competition and is expected to take home the trophy from the Universe of Champions event - that is, until she drops dead in the middle of an elegant spiral - apparently the result of a lethal cocktail of booze and pills.
Former private investigator Quinn O'Casey sees this as a straightforward case of death by misadventure, but his brother Doug, a Miami patrolman and Lara's lover, begs him to help . . .
With a distinct lack of interest in the case and even less interest in dancing, Quinn goes undercover as a student at the Moonlight Sonata Studio where Lara used to teach. Before long he discovers that everyone has a reason to hate Lara Trudeau - a woman as ruthless as she was talented.
Amidst a drama of broken hearts, shattered dreams and tangled motives Quinn begins his hunt for a killer. He soon finds that, in a city where pleasure drugs are a fast and dangerous high, an alarming number of overdose deaths, illegal substances and execution style shootings are connected to the Moonlight Sonata.
Beautiful and graceful studio manager, Shannon Mackay, is alarmed by Quinn's findings. Worse, she fears someone may be trying to kill her. Suddenly her life is in sharp focus: she wants to dance, to compete again, to share her life with Quinn, and she's about to discover the risks she must take to fulfill her dreams . . . because someone has another plan for her.
But that "someone" hasn't counted on Quinn O'Casey - a man who doesn't give up and never backs down, especially when it comes to protecting the woman he loves.
