Finding herself as a suspect in the murder of Michael Montgomery, her ex-fiancé, Lionel Winn, an employee of a large Chicago department store, not particularly relying on the police, begins her own investigation. Soon the girl manages to get so close to the solution that she turns from a hunter into a game. The assassination attempts follow one after another, and the worst thing is that the perpetrator is undoubtedly someone from the inner circle of Lionel and Michael. The only one she can trust, who does everything possible to protect the girl from unknown danger, is without a doubt Bill, whom she has known for a thousand years and has always considered just a friend...