Kaya Evers is no stranger to suffering. Its chilled fingers had wrapped itself around her childhood, so tightly that she later thought herself numb to the touch. But when her mother, with her heartbreak eyes and determined hands is tugged out of existence with a cryptic note as an only fairwel, Kaya must make an decide just how desperately she seeks reconciliation.

Phones, light typing...and murder. Think breaking into show business is hard? Try landing a temp job without office skills. That's the challenge facing aspiring actress Isobel Spice when she arrives in New York City, fresh out of college and deficient in PowerPoint. After being rejected by seven temp agencies for her lack of experience, Isobel sweet-talks recruiter James Cooke into letting her cover a last-minute vacancy at a bank. New to his own job, and recently sober, James takes a chance on Isobel, despite his suspicion that she's a trouble-magnet. His misgivings are borne out by lunchtime, when she stumbles across a dead secretary in a bathroom stall. Can Isobel find the killer before he strikes again?