A woman's apparent suicide proves to be something darker when an autopsy reveals a brutal secret carved into her body.To find the truth of her death, Detective Finn O'Brien and his partner, Cori Anderson, are thrust into a dangerous labyrinth that stretches from the shadowed corners of L.A.'s exiled African community to Hollywood's elite hideaways, and finally to the doorstep of a ruthless foreign man whose cruelty is legendary and whose influence infects the very heart of the city.Together, they will risk everything because crimes don't stop at borders, and some killers don't stop at all."Both heart-rending and heart-warming, Rebecca Forster assures us that despite the reality and the odds, justice, loyalty and love, still reign and rule the day."