A young, professional woman named Cherie is confronted with the reality that her stockbroker fianc, Jack, is missing. She and her fianc's brother, Bryan, desperately search for him yet have heard nothing from him or about him. This culminates in Jack being found dead in an alley under very mysterious circumstances. Cherie is devastated and cannot believe that Jack is gone. She handles the cremation arrangements and ends up bringing home the urn she lovingly has chosen with Jack's ashes in it. Once Cherie does this, strange things begin happening to her involving the urn and Jack's death. The novel twists in and out of the drug world with its addictiveness and dangers, when even darker elements emerge as the strange events surrounding Cherie become increasingly disturbing and ultimately violent. All of this comes to a shocking climax when these worlds come clashing together for a truly unexpected finale.