Harry Pierce has just moved in to a new apartment but the first time he checks his phone messages he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages are for a woman named Lilly - and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, a nighttime world of escort services, websites, sex and secret identities. Every step Pierce takes leads him to abandon his own orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met, as he is faced with a decision that could cost him everything...
Sur la place Saint-Marc, elle attendait. Dans la maison du vieil homme, elle dormait depuis longtemps. Au coin du petit bois, elle est descendue du train de voyageurs. Par un après-midi tranquille, elle a mesuré le temps. Qui donc ? La Mort, bien évidemment.