Munch Mancini - mechanic, limousine driver, mother - has lived a hard life and done it all: sex, drugs, you name it. But now she has her adopted eight-year-old daughter, Asia, a house and job she loves...and she also has trouble when the battered body of her former pal is washed up in a Los Angeles drainage canal. Munch's policeman friend Mace St. John runs the dead woman's prints: her name is Jane Ferrar, but in her arrest report Mace finds Munch's photograph and fingerprints. What's the tie between the two women? Who killed Jane and what is the significance of the baby doll tied to her arms? Despite severing all ties with the people she used to know, especially Jane Ferrar and a dangerous man named Thor, Munch soon learns that it's not that easy to escape the past. Now, her whole new life is in danger of unravelling unless she can stop a killer.