Engulfed in a furious squall, a harbor-patrol officer's fate hinges on Tru's guile and her clash of wills with the evil Jack Harper. Harper's now in league with Tru's father, a devilish lawyer manipulating Harrison.
Police suspect Tru of murder on a complexly plotted "redo" day that involves a duplicitous psychiatrist and an ingenious scheme hatched by Tru's dad and her nemesis, Jack.
A cry for help baffles Tru, who can't ID the victim. She thinks the source is a med student's secretive finacée, but Davis's choice is a new friend, a psychologist with secrets of her own.
A cry for help rattles Jack, who struggles with his role in the fate of a suicidal loner he's grown fond of, on a complex day that also pits him against Tru and her conspiratorial father.
Death gets personal for Tru when her love interest is slain. Now she seeks to undo the killing, but the victim never asks for help. Who does? An escaped con killed in a car crash. Jack, of course, figures in the mystery.
A mystery binds combatants Tru and Jack, uneasy partners in a help call centering on a homicide that goes back some six months and involves an adulterer. Another storyline reveals the darker side of Tru's dad.
