"Pretty Frisco Carstairs has a reputation of being quite free with her sexual favors. Now she has so besotted young Ben Lawson that he is willing to abandon his mother's dreams to marry Frisco. But when her body is found strangled in an isolated woodland, the case is far from open and shut. Detective Inspector Nick Trevellyan discovers that Frisco has as many enemies as she had lovers. As his own passionate relationship with elegant businesswoman Alison Hope becomes turbulent and uncertain, he comes closer to untangling a web of duplicity, jealousy, and revenge--the heart of which hides a clever killer." --provided by Goodreads.