Like the city of New Orleans itself, Claire Laurent is a vibrant beauty laced with a mysterious elusiveness. The founder of French Silk, the perfect lingerie company, she has fought hard to make it a worldwide success. A TV evangelist attacks French Silk’s erotic sleepwear as sinful. And when he is killed, Claire turns into the prime believe. District Lawyer Robert Cassidy knows Claire can be damning herself with lie after rest about the murder, even as he feels her sketching him into her world and her very soul. But neither Cassidy nor her protests of innocence can save Claire unless she reveals a surprising truth – one she’s sworn to try the grave…