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Summary

Dumping the guy after she discovers that he's a lying, low- down, egg-sucking you-know-what was the easy part. Getting out of the business contract that handcuffs Elizabeth Cabot to Jack Fairfax is an entirely different problem. When the high-tech crystal on which they have both staked their futures disappears from a lab, Elizabeth and Jack have no choice but to form a reluctant partnership. Neither trusts the other but neither has much choice--there's money and murder involved. The trail leads to the shadowy world of a film noir festival where life sometimes imitates art in dangerous ways and nothing is quite what it seems...