Gretchen Morely is a romance writer whose obsession with her husband's affair is so intense she's even written a book about infidelity - ending in murder. Gretchen's agent, success-driven Gina, is annoyed that her client would deviate from romance by writing something so sadistic and starts panicking that this book will be the end of her own career. But when Gina seeks the advice of her tabloid journalist boyfriend, Harlon, he urges her to think like a survivor. This is a story about when multiple people with their own obsessions collide and how that can often have catastrophic results.