With his boss breathing hard down his neck, world-weary self-help book editor Vince Noli knows that he desperately needs a smash-hit success

the kind of book that gets noticed by Kylie, the mega-watt talk show host whose simple word-of-mouth blessings automatically insure instant big bucks (and, in Vinces case, job security).

But what happens when Vince discovers a brilliant book that could be his golden key to the Big Time and it is written by a lawyer whose tortured body has just washed up on the shores of Lake Michigan?

To what length will Vince go to guarantee his future and at what moral cost?