Paula Cooper, a paralegal from Georgetown, SC, gets into serious trouble when working for an attorney, J. Thomas Denby. She is asked to participate in a blackmail plot. Reluctantly, she attends Judge Parks' annual Christmas party in Charleston, SC, where her mission is to entice the justice, who is separated from his wife, into an incriminating embrace, but before she can complete the task things go terribly wrong. The love of Paula's boyfriend, Jim Roberts, an antique dealer that she met the previous summer, is tested because of what she has done. She faces criminal charges and the...

Paula Cooper Roberts, a paralegal from Georgetown, SC, and Jim Roberts, her new husband, are determined to start life afresh following a blackmail scandal that implicated her in the death of a Federal judge. Unfortunately, although she was cleared of all charges, the stigma that remains is more than Paula and her family care to deal with in her small Southern town. Shortly after Paula and Jim marry they decide buy a home and move to the city of Charleston, where they hope to escape the shadows of her past. There, Jim looks for a location for his antique business, while Paula seeks work as a...

Though she loves detective work, Paula was involved with a case that could have killed her and done harm to her family. She is asked by her husband to wind down her employment at Crescent Moon Agency, but before she can fulfill her notice, she gets involved with a case that becomes much more dangerous than anyone thought possible. It leads her to the Caribbean where she is tracking a man who disappeared on a fishing trip and is thought to be dead. The action heats up when Paula and Carla, her assistant, on are his trail. When they come face to face with a hired killer choices are made that...