The fruitless search for her missing sixteen-year-old brother led her from distant Georgia to stuffy Los Angeles, to the cluttered waiting room of the local detective, Victor Canelli, who seemed to know all the passages and exits in this huge city, all its hot spots, abodes of vice and dirty secrets. Only he could give the answer - where to look for the teenager who had gone astray. All Madeleine wanted was to find her brother... until she found herself in Victor's arms and found what she had always needed, what she had dreamed of all her life... An unexpected passion changed her.