Framed for a crime she didn't commit, investigator Teresa Knight's on the run from Paris to Rio ... and soon she's playing hardball with the boys from Brazil while tangling with crime lords, terrorists, and one sexually adventurous clandestine agent. As she moves closer to the truth--and deeper into the erotic throes of her own unbridled sensuality--she's following a trail that leads to the highest reaches of international government. Unable to trust anyone, caught in a tangled web of obsession and eroticism, suddenly she's both hunter and prey in a deadly conspiracy that's taking sex and power to a whole new level ... -- P. [2] of dust jacket.