Mary Stavin

A Vietnam vet, reeling from a divorce and the disappearance of his son, tries to write a novel about his war experiences in his haunted boyhood home.

Lauren Allen is an ex-cop working on corporate espionage for leading perfume designer Grace Lantel. When someone begins murdering women and leaving bottles of Lantel's new perfume, Desire, as a calling card, all clues point to competing perfume designer Gordon Lewis. Allen joins up with Nick Palermo to investigate.