Gilly Decker is rich, fifty and married to a human vegetable. Cut down by a stroke on their honeymoon, Marco has given up. He hungers only for pills and thirsts only for the fluid in the hypodermic needle. Gilly Decker has lost one husband and is about to lose another. Why, then, should she send the bright young lawyer, Tom Aragon, to the wastes of Mexico to look for her first husband? It must be all of eight years since B.J. Lockwood took off with one of the servants - so is she after B.J.'s money, B.J.'s son, or sweet revenge - and can she foresee the deadly future?

Rich widow Miranda Shaw and lifeguard Grady Keaton, half Miranda's age, disappear from the Penguin Beach Club, and, amid rumors and anonymous letters, attorney Tom Aragon begins a search—assisted by a nine-year-old who boasts of his Mafia connections

Tomas Aragon, a young Chicano lawyer, is hired to investigate the disappearance of Cleo Jasper, a young heiress, by her wealthy industrialist brother