When widow Lella York has her best friend's astrology chart cast by a gypsy in Florence, Italy the last thing she expects to hear is that the chart belongs to a dead woman. But the prediction might already be true.

When Lella arrives home to Orange County, California, she learns that her best friend Ruby's husband is dead and Ruby's gone missing. Suddenly Lella's whole world turns upside down. Her own son is arrested for kidnapping Ruby, no one knows if her friend is dead or alive, and no one is giving Lella the answers she so desperately needs. She's forced to rely on a sexy on-leave homicide detective, who is quietly investigating the case. But when his interested in Lella seem to go far beyond the case, she can't help wondering at his motives. Is he on her side... or is he seducing her to keep her in the dark? Lella follows her heart and is forced to face reality when the past and present collide, and seemingly unrelated deaths all fall into a sinister pattern. Has her soul always known the truth? Can her heart heal from the brutal wounds? And will Lella survive her connection to the exotic, dangerous woman born under a Gemini Moon?