Description

Irrepressible heiress and smart sleuth Francesca Cahill goes from her own glistening world of Fifth Avenue for the teeming underbelly of community, a location of satisfaction, passions…and occasionally life-threatening perversion.Despite the misgivings of her fiancé, Calder Hart, Francesca can't change away from a risk that's terrorizing the tenement community of Lower Manhattan. Women have been attacked three by a madman, but the 3rd is located dead, as the first two patients survived. All of the patients are impoverished but stunning Irishwomen—andFrancesca worries that her beloved friends Maggie Kennedy and Gwen O'Neil might be next.Soon she's dealing with her previous love, police commissioner Ron Bragg—Calderis half-brother and toughest competitor. But even while Calder's envious interests depart his connection with Francesca teetering on the edge, Francesca is anxiously on the killer's path, particular the Slasher will hit again, scared she'll be also late.…