Henry Pierce has a whole new life - new apartment, new
telephone, new telephone number. But the first time he checks his
messages, he discovers that someone had the number before him. The
messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, and it's unlike any place he's ever known. It is a nighttime world of escort services, web sites, sex, and secret identities. Pierce tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met. Pierce's skills as a computer entrepreneur allow him to trace Lilly's last days with some precision. But every step into Lilly's past takes Pierce deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy - and a decision that could cost him everything he holds dear.