Maria Peterson, as a private detective involved in a love triangle lives a very exciting life full of suspense, treachery, and deadly intrigue culminating in a surprise ending. Maria a young, intelligent, and strikingly beautiful University of Toronto graduate, tired of her nine to five job in Toronto goes to Vancouver to improve her life. In Vancouver, Maria as a private detective finds both love, and a tumultuous life full of luxury, excitement, fury, treachery, and deadly intrigue which embroils her with unscrupulous people involved with drugs and murder. When Maria's friend Val dies from the effects of illegal drugs and with the untimely death of her mother, Maria along with her father become determined and courageously involved in a crusade to end the life of corruption and death, which through deceit and conniving, they have been trapped. Now with the morals and mores with which they were raised still fresh in their minds, they are determined to bring justice to those responsible for the lives of corruption to which they had become unwilling participants. This book has more than one facet. It is a story that can be read more than once for its pleasure and what one will learn. However, it is not a theory of how the drug trade operates, the characters and businesses involved are figments of the imagination, but the situations and the story itself are based on knowledge.