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Investigating the death of a woman that has been ruled accidental by the police but that her sister insists was a murder by a known perpetrator, a reluctant Nameless begins to suspect that the victim's sister is telling the truth when he learns unsettling facts about her life.

In the thirty years the Nameless detective has been a private investigator, he has never once had the misfortune to cross paths with a femme fatale, until he crosses paths with Cory Beckett, a deadly woman who has brought some new angles to the species.

Nameless may not like David Virden, but the case is simple enough: find his ex-wife, and they know where she is. Deliver some papers to her and it is is all done. But she refuses the papers, sends a message to Virden to never contact her again, and slams the door. His colleague, Tamara, tells Nameless that Virden threatens to sue, stops payment on his checks, and claims that the woman they located is not his wife. Then he disappears and his fiancee...

"We're told that there are seven deadly sins; not on the list is the deadliest of them all: Betrayal. For each of the detectives at the agency, a betrayal-- personal, against a child, against the elderly-- becomes not only the driving force behind an investigation, but the source of the kind of resolve that cannot be derailed by threats of any kind. Tamara's case began as something personal but explodes as her investigation of her former lover Lucas...

In the bitter winter of 1898, Zachary McQuestion, a US citizen serving in the Northwest Mounted Police, investigates the deaths of storekeeper Molly Malone and her two employees, tracking the killers through the Yukon, into Alaska and by ship to San Francisco, a city gripped by war fever.