Early Autumn

Raised in an orphanage, Joan Walker becomes a social outcast who discovers murder is a convenient solution and sweet revenge whenever anyone opposes her. When she learns Adam Sard, the man she loves is going to be married, Olga Johnson, a.k.a. Joan Walker, who has been sentenced to death by lethal injection for first degree murder, escapes from death row to prevent the marriage from taking place. Using aliases and disguises, she manages to elude the authorities.

Jade Armstrong Otis is an investigative reporter for a Washington, D.C. newspaper. She is searching for the murderer of her grandmother whose death took place years ago in a Boston City hospital where Olga was employed. The trail leads her to the gambling Mecca of Las Vegas and Adam Sard.