She moved up along the couch, put her hands on my shoulder and forced me back. She looked intently down into my face. A long strand of the dark hair swung below her cheek. When Kyle Cameron meets temptation--in the memorable shape of Emily, the new girl at the bank--his life changes. He thought he would be trapped behind bronze bars, chained to a suburban bungalow, but now he had won out: a strange, lovely woman, a fortune, and the strength to murder to keep what he had won. But, gripped by sexual obsession, he enters a world where he will never feel safe again. He puts himself in the hands and the plans of a woman who craves the contents of a very special suitcase from which even the prospect of death won't free her. And when a brutal fate pulls them into its shadows, they have known the extremes of love and hate--and neither of them is welcome any more. In this powerful novel, John D MacDonald explores how our passions can provoke a chain of events to trap us. It is a story that challenges us to recognize the narrow line that draws our illusion of self-control.