In this, the fifth installment in the Roland Longville series, Roland witnesses a murder while he's waiting to meet a client, a client who turns out to be a heavyweight senator with a daughter who is hiding a checkered past and a colossal drug habit, and who is currently on the run. The senator wants her home before election time. Roland discovers the daughter is involved in the adult film industry; mixed up with a porn starlet named Nookie; an alcoholic, paranoid novelist; a crooked private eye; and an old enemy out of Roland's past. He begins to realize that it's all connected to the murder he witnessed, and that some secrets should remain secret.