I appreciated the relationship stuff going on in this book. It isn't your stereotypical beginning or ending of a relationship (although there were threads of both), but rather the hard part, the part that isn't always easy or pretty, but the day-to-day living of life in a relationship. ( )

New York private detective Lauren Laurano shares an apartment with Kip, her longtime lover, in New York's Greenwich Village, where they are surrounded by a close-knit group of friends. But Lauren and Kip's relationship has hit a rough patch, and when Kip goes out of town for a month-long conference, Lauren's life gets complicated by a new case, a new love interest, and a menace from her past.