Miri Fox has just returned to San Francisco after a terrible shock in Thailand - a shock that no one really understands except her boss, psychic detective Quentin Black. But Black leaves Miri and San Francisco shortly after they return to the States. Worse, he disappears without explanation or warning, without telling her when he returns. Now Miri doesn't answer his calls and Black is desperate. Will he be able to regain Miri's trust after betraying her at the moment when she needed him most? A Christmas story with Quentin Black and his accomplice, a forensic psychologist, Miri Fox.