Spring 1945, and though WWII is crashing to a close, Jessica and Liz Minton's hopes for the future are short-lived as they become entrapped in a noir world of intrigue and murder. Jessica's beloved is missing in action in Europe, leaving her on her own to save herself and those she cares about from a dark past entangling them with false identities, jewel theft, betrayal, and murder. Though Liz now runs a successful dress company, her charming partner, Evan Blair, provokes the jealousy of her fiancé, Larry Sanders.Much worse, Elizabeth discovers that Evan has a shadowed history that violently catches up to him in the form of a beautiful socialite fiercely determined to exact revenge, but not before wringing from him the location of stolen jade. That jade also casts a shadow over the Minton sisters' friend Lois Wong, whose brother was destroyed by its theft. Jess and Liz's attempts to bring Tewkesbury to justice are thwarted by the predatory female's threat to implicate Larry Sanders in Evan Blair's murder.Finding truth and justice grows even more difficult, as Jess and Liz must contend with two suspicious police detectives and an F.B.I. man from Jessica's past with secrets of his own.Join Jessica and Liz as they skate on the left side of the law to restore a friend's family honor, save Larry from a deadly frame, and manage not to get themselves killed! It's enough to make Dusty the cat's fur stand on end!