He has a dead body.  She has the seedy connections. To solve the crime they are forced to work together.   To keep her mother’s reputation from destroying her, Ashley Dix Gibson had to learn at an early age to persevere and tune out the lies, gossip, and the bullies. But even running away and joining the army couldn't help her escape the world she was born to and the death of her friend forces her to return to her roots.  Detective Michael DeMarco has no desire to team up with a woman with ties to the underbelly of the porn industry but if he wants to solve his case, he has no other options. When Ashley and DeMarco combine their resources to find a brutal killer., sparks of distrust turn into the fires of passion.