Brazen Virtue (Sacred Sins)

After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, whos embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce. Arriving in D.C., Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run-down neighborhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing her meager teachers salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator.

According to Kathleen, Fantasy, Inc., guarantees its employees ironclad anonymity. But Grace has her doubtswhich are confirmed one horrifying cherry-blossom-scented night when one of Fantasy, Inc.s operators is murdered. As Grace is drawn to help solve the crime, her life turns into a scene from one of her own books. Yet as one of her biggest fans, investigator Ed Jackson, warns her: This isnt fiction. Real people dieand Grace could be next. For shes setting a trap for a killer more twisted than anything she could imagine. And not even Ed may be able to protect her from a rendezvous with lust and death.