Grace McCabe has a successful career writing murder mysteries she has just finished a publicity tour for her most recent bestselling mystery novel. She decides to stop and visit with her sister Kathleen in Washington D.C. Grace and Kathleen do not have a very close relationship but Grace hopes this visit will change that. Kathleen has gotten a job teaching at a school after she returned to DC after her divorce was finalized in California. Her ex-husband is from a wealthy family and demanded that their son stay with him and Kathleen doesn’t have the money or power to fight him. Kathleen is working as a phone sex operator at Fantasy Inc in order to earn money for a lawyer to fight for custody. Unknown to everyone someone hacks into Fantasy, Inc.'s site and uncovers Kathleen's home address and murders her and Grace is the one to find her body. When another worker for Fantasy is murdered and then a third woman survives an attack because her dog bites the attacker. Grace meets Kathleen's next-door neighbor, who is a DC murder cop named Ed and he and Grace becomes close while he investigates her sisters murder. The murder is closing in and Grace maybe the next victim.