This book is kind of like a sequel to the previous King Bennett novel, So Much for Your Promises. It starts off with King leaving Atlantic City and heading towards Philadelphia. He's going to visit an old girlfriend, Connie Quail, who is now a lounge singer in the city. It's her last week in Philly because she just got a break in a Broadway show and will be leaving for New York soon. King and her reminisce about the old times and then suddenly Connie breaks down in tears. She tells him that she has recently been blackmailed by an unknown person who knows her true past.

As the story unfolds we find out that Connie is really the seductive adult film actress, Lyla St. John, who appeared in an earlier King Bennett novel, Screen Kiss (1959). Even though she changed her hair color and style, along with a new nose job, someone still discovered her secret.

An interesting part to this story is that a majority of it takes place in Trainer and Chester, Pennsylvania. Those are two towns that Dean lived in while growing up and both are located about thirty minutes below Philly. Dean traveled there to research the story. He fell in love with Trainer so much he bought a house in town known as Trainer Mansion. It's not actually a mansion, it was just the biggest single dwelling in town. It stood on a hilltop known as the Ridge. The town's founder, David Trainer built it in 1820 and it stayed in the Trainer family until 1950 when the last relative passed away. A distant cousin still owned the house but he lived in Boston. He had it maintained and allowed it to be used by the town for special events. No one lived in it until Dean bought it in 1966; even then he still didn't actually take up residence there until 1982.