It is 1961 in the fourth book of the "Black Stiletto" series. Judy, the Stiletto, meets Leo, a charismatic man who convinces her to move to Los Angeles when she is "run out" of New York by increasingly hazardous police heat. But soon Judy suspects that Leo is not the white knight she first thought. Leo, who has connections with the West Coast mobs, has plenty of skeletons in his closet. His mysterious sister, Christina, who once served time for armed...

"It's 1959, and Judy Cooper, The Black Stiletto, sets out to confront a dangerous gangster, the heroin king of Harlem, when the teenage daughter of her beloved martial arts instructor becomes a prisoner in an uptown narcotics den. And The Stiletto has troubles of her own--a shady filmmaker is threatening to reveal her identity to the world, a close friend of her landlord and substitute father may be in cahoots with the Harlem criminals, she's fighting...