Fire and ice: the Powell family tragedy -- Two strange deaths in Coronado -- Double death for the kind philanthropists -- "Fire!" -- An obsession with blondes -- The last Valentine's Day -- The man who loved too much -- Terror on a mountain trail -- No on knows where Wendy is.

It's a chilling reality that homicide investigators know all too well: the last face most murder victims see is not that of a stranger, but of someone familiar. These doomed relationships are the focus of Ann Rule's sixteenth crime files collection.