Rita is an artist, still recovering from an attack by three men. Deborah is a nurse and a killer, as much at ease ending people's lives as prolonging them. Maybe, if they hadn't been lovers, it wouldn't have gone beyond talk. But they are. And it does.

The police start finding bodies. And more bodies. Because, once you start killing people, it's difficult to stop. New names get added to the list. All men, and all sexually interfered with. Why not? That's what the three men did to Rita. Revenge is sweet.

PC Jamie Pearson and Rita were teenagers together once. Jamie wants to find Rita. Which is also the aim of reporter Bernadette Spence. Jamie wants Rita's soul and Bernadette wants her story. And Deborah wants both of them dead.

When Theresa McErlane joined the police, she was partnered with PC Jamie Pearson. Theresa wants more than anything to get out of uniform. She wants to be a detective. She'd like to be part of the Major Crime Investigation Team trying to find the two women who are killing men. But then she realises that the strange invitation Jamie received must have been from the killers. Jamie is on their list. And it's up to Theresa to track them down and rescue him. When she's done that, she can think about the other thing she wants so badly. It, also, involves Jamie. And, ideally, a church, though she'd settle for a register office. If Jamie dies at the hands of the two women, that dream will die, too. And Theresa isn't about to let that happen.