When erratic but talented actress Caterina Velosi vanishes just before the opening of a high-profile play written especially for her, the blood on her bedroom windowsill suggests she didn`t go willingly. Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond quickly realizes that Caterina`s social life was so complicated that there are several people who could be responsible for her disappearance...including Eve`s own boyfriend Silvio. Meanwhile, Eve`s investigation is hampered by rookie reporter Felice Morgan, whose driving need to get the scoop verges on the unethical. This is journalist Denise Hamilton`s fourth Eve Diamond mystery.