Romance novelist Nora Roberts, writing as herself and as J.D. Robb, author of futuristic romantic suspense stories, presents two connected tales, the first in which a diamond heist brings together Laine Tavish, the thief's daughter, and insurance investigator Max Gannon, and the second in which their granddaughter, having written a book about the theft in 2059, becomes the target of someone who believes she has the still missing gems.

Double murder is on the agenda for Lieutenant Eve Dallas, when Reva Ewing, a former member of the Secret Service, is accused of murdering her husband, well known artist Blair Bissel, and also of slaying her best friend with whom her husband was having an affair, but Eve does not believe Reva is guilty in this mystery set in the New York of 2059.

In 2059 New York City, Lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles to balance her professional life with her private demons, but the two worlds collide when a ghost from Eve's childhood appears, Eve is once against thrown into the horrors of her past, which now threaten everything Eve holds dear.

When the body of a woman is found with similar markings of victims nine years earlier, Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows that the serial killer she had investigated has struck again; but it is not until she learns the victim was an employee of her husband that she realizes the killings have become personal and she is in danger.

Eve Dallas works to investigate the murder of eighty people in a downtown bar when witnesses begin to talk about having seen monsters and swarms of bees at the scene.

While planning a baby shower for her friend, New York homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the disappearance of a pregnant woman and the murders of two, wealthy, international accountants.