As an innocent trapped in high-stakes affairs, Hollis Fremont is a keen, resourceful, gutsy woman who battles relentlessly to free her life from threats of violence and death. Stalked by an assassin known only as "the handyman, " she is forced to rely on her keen instincts, intelligence, and dogged determination, especially when she realizes she can no longer trust anyone -- not the police, and not even her longtime lover.