shes smart beautiful and she doesnt need a man to look after her but sports agent myron bolitar has come into her life big time now myrons next move may be his lastbrenda slaughter is no damsel in distress myron bolitar is no bodyguard but myron has agreed to protect the bright strong beautiful basketball star and hes about to find out if hes man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her lifetwenty years before brendas mother deserted her and just as brenda is making it to the top of the womens pro basketball world her father disappears too a bigtime new york sports agent with a foundering love life myron has a professional interest in brenda then a personal one but between them isnt just the difference in their backgrounds or the color of their skin between them is a chasm of corruption and lies a vicious young mafioso on the make and one secret that some people are dying to keep and others are killing to protect