Rick Leighton is a world-class, sophisticated intelligence operative with a questionable past. He's tried retiring, leaving it all behind, and for a time he did. But the past has a way of catching up to you, and he was the company whore for a long time when he was an active agent. Much to his surprise he's fallen in love with the daughter of his mentor, a girl fifteen years his junior, but her love and devotion to him-her acceptance of him-has taught him the kind of love he once scoffed at. Rick loves Cindi, but he also worries about her. Apart from his past, there is the very real problem of her insatiable curiosity, and for Halloween, he decides to teach her a lesson in being more careful. He lures her to an old hotel that's been abandoned for decades, and reputed to be haunted. She goes, led by the intrigue and her curiosity, just as he knows she'll be. When Rick grabs her in the hallway, her anger is quickly overwhelmed by the scope of his private party and all it entails. In the afterglow of their passion, though, the ghosts of the place become all too real, and Rick's past clashes violently with the love that defines his present. When Cindi is taken hostage by a woman he once used and left, one who blames him for the death of her son, blood and death are the only way back to safety.