When Jane Gibbs’ friends at the Forbidden Fruit—a K-bar in Honolulu—start disappearing, she shrugs it off. Strippers are notorious for going AWOL without notice—to avoid irate landlords, crazy boyfriends, and fed-up bill collectors. But when Jane’s closest friend, Blossom, vanishes, she realizes that something is terribly wrong. In reading Blossom’s diaries, and tracking her from Tiffin, Iowa, to the Rattlesnake Café in Marfa, Texas, to the Sands, in Las Vegas, Jane finds herself drawn imperceptibly into the dark worlds of pornography, drugs, secrets, and murder. This is a tale of tricks within tricks within tricks.