At exactly 7:30 pm, Walter Pettibone arrives home to find his friends and family are throwing him a birthday party. Although the real surprise is yet to come. At 8:45 pm, a woman with emerald eyes and red hair hands him a glass of champagne. One sip and he is dead.

The woman's name is Julie Dockport. No one at the party knows who she is. But Detective Eve Dallas remembers her all too well. Eve was personally responsible for her incarceration nearly ten years ago. And now, let out on good behaviour, she still has nothing but bad intentions.

It appears she wants to meet Dallas again - in a reunion neither will forget