Mallory Malone's hard-hitting television programme tackles wrong-doers head-on. Even the police, like Boston detective Harry Jordan, admire her - and Harry needs her help to find a killer.
Immune to wealth and glamour, Mallory doesn't know why she can't resist seeing more of Harry Jordan. But she is also terrified, for Harry has confronted her with a face that comes from the years before she was a wealthy television star.
Then the killer decides he has to silence Mallory Malone, and she has to find the courage to confront the poverty and terror she has hidden so carefully.