Dr. Valerie Cros is a professor of literature and psychology at Berkeley, She and her lover David became the main suspects in the terrible murder of one of her students.

Following the death of a co-worker, a young woman working for a private airline learns the owner's secret and becomes the next target.

Meeting a man on the Internet, Julia decides to see him in person, only to get abducted and branded with the letter "x" by that guy. A game of cat and mouse follows, but the story has an unexpected twist.

Jennifer is a writer working on a new novel and, needing to get out of the city to finish it, hires a riverside apartment in upstate New York to finish her book—attracting the attention of a number of rowdy male locals.