A mix of slick and seamy, South Lake Tahoe, California, isthe perfect setting for adventurers, criminals - and lawyers. In addition tocoping with her demanding, sometimes creepy, clients, Nina Reilly is dealingwith prickly personal issues involving her sixteen-year-old son Bob, hisestranged father, and her investigator, confidante, and sometimes lover Paulvan Wagoner. Then, in walks disaster. The millionaire owner of a Tahoe ski resort,Philip Strong is the father of Jim Strong, a sociopath who devastated manyinnocent lives, including Nina's. Two years earlier, she had to defend Jimagainst charges of murder. He shattered her life, then vanished. Paul vanWagoner made sure of it. Now in negotiations to sell his ski resort, Philip hasreceived a letter purportedly from his fugitive son in extradition-free Brazil,demanding his share of the profits. Philip is convinced it's authentic. Nina'scertain it's a con, but to prove that means exposing the secrets of someonevery close to her. Then two local women are brutally murdered. Nina begins toquestion their links to her new client, and the truth about Jim Strong's suddendisappearance. As Nina's worst fears flood back, with time running out, she'sabout to discover that the dreams of the dead can still destroy the living.
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