Publisher's Synopsis
Private Investigator Tess Monaghan is back in Baltimore where she likes to be and beginning to make a name for herself. Then her father asks a favor: to investigate the prison death of a friend's brother, jailed for the killing of an unidentified girl known only as Jane Doe. Unwillingly, Tess looks into it. She uncovers a trail that leads her to the Sugar House, a brutal institution where Tess uncovers the real identity of Jane Doe. And now, suddenly, Tess's father is begging her to drop the case. . .