Club-hopping Zara Morrissey is one of the best private investigators in the decaying metropolis of Boronia Park. Having seen and heard everything, she is no longer shocked by the horrors and savagery of life. However this coolness fades when her younger sister Una, an innocent nursing student, is found brutally murdered.

What’s even stranger: the gory circumstances of Una’s death align perfectly with the recent murders of three heiresses from Boronia’s wealthiest families. Without time to spare, Zara plunges into a desperate, maddening search around the city for the killer. However, the more she learns about the decadent high society her sister was connected to, the more she realizes that nothing is ever as it seems.