Ambition can make the price of success irrelevant. Ambition can kill your soul. Sherry Proper works hard to keep her life simple. She wants to stick to the important things: do good, interesting work, spend time with interesting friends and lovers. Now her tendency to stick her nose into the wrong working of things is tearing that worled apart! Her work and life have fused together and it's gotten impossible to separate them. Crime and love, passion and paranoia make for a strange, sometimes unpalatable, brew. A compelling story of urban crime, greed, and corruption and the danger of looking too closely at any of it.