"It is your choice," he said, stepping so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job." My heart stood still as I gazed up into his deep, dark, dangerous eyes... In a world where women's only role in life is to sit at home and look pretty, Lilly is determined to fight for her freedom. There's only one problem: a powerful man blocking her way.

"I think something might have happened to me Saturday night. Something bad." Private Investigator Dani Ripper's client list is nuttier than the Looney Tunes conga line, but she diligently solves one crazy case after another, waiting for a game-changer. Enter Riley Freeman, 17-year-old honor student. Saturday afternoon Riley quietly placed a little strawberry sticker on her private area and pretended it was a tattoo. She didn't tell anyone about it. That night she went to a slumber party that featured drinking and boys. Riley fell asleep, woke up the next day with no reason to think anything happened... ...Until Monday, at school, when a classmate called her Strawberry. Coincidence or crime? Dani agrees to investigate. And the roller coaster ride begins.

"You are serendipity.", he says. "A pleasant surprise?", I ask. "Yeah.", he says, smiling, "I've always hated surprises. Mostly they are noisy and poorly organized birthday parties, ghastly Christmas sweaters or a secondhand car that your Dad gives you with great pride even though he bought it at the price of a toaster oven and its already got a few million miles on it. But sometimes, its you." "Sky?", I say, looking at him. "Hm." "You know you're anti-social right?"