Waking up on the floor of his own living room, John Brenner finds that his head is splitting with pain, several hours have erased from his memory without a trace, an empty bottle of vodka sits on the coffee table, and nearby lies a pistol and a dead girl with a bullet in her chest. Didn’t John—an illustrator of children’s books—commit a murder? And who is the girl? John is ready to swear he’s seeing her for the first time in his life—but something in her features seems strangely familiar…