The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Survivor in Death has Lieutenant Eve Dallas walking a tightrope between her professional duties and her private demons. Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She`s got no problem dealing with a holiday revele in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa." But when she gets back to the station and Trudy Lombard shows up, it`s all Eve can do to hold it together. Instantly, she`s thrown back into the past, to te days when she was a vulnerable, traumatized girl-trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits in front of her, smiling. Trudy claims she just wanted to see how Eve was doing. But Eve`s husband, Roarke, suspects otherwise-and hi suspicions prove correct when Trudy arrives at his office, demanding money in exchange for keeping the ugly details of his wife`s childhood a secret. Barely restraining himself, Roarke shows her the door-and makes it clear that she`