The wives of Boston's wealthiest men have a mutual secret: they all had an affair with the same cad who's blackmailing them, and Spenser's been hired to stop him. But when the wives start dying one by one, Spenser's new case becomes murder.

A portrait artist whose paintings alter people’s bodies, Myra, when her gift is discovered by the governor’s wife, is forced to complete a special portrait resurrecting the governor’s dead son, which brings her face-to-face with a killer.