Carlotta Carlyle knows all about urban survival. That?s why she?s happy to do her neighbor, Valentine, a favor like this one. The elderly recluse needs help burglar-proofing her rent-controlled apartment. But it seems Valentine?s fears are more immediate and threatening than she?s letting on. Because just twenty-four hours later, the old woman turns up dead in her ransacked home. Finding out who?d want to kill a nice old lady lands Carlotta on the heels of a hotshot music executive claiming to be Valentine?s last living relative, a real-estate mogul with a knack for eviction, and Valentine?s terrified healthcare worker. But when Carlotta becomes the target of an arsonist, she knows she?s on to something hot: a city-wide conspiracy that Beantown?s top brass want dead and buried?along with the woman who knew too much.