Brazen 2022 After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe Alyssa Milano decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, whos embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce Arriving in D C , Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run down neighborhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing her meager teachers salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator According to Kathleen, Fantasy, Inc , guarantees its employees ironclad anonymity But Grace has her doubts which are confirmed one horrifying cherry blossom scented night when one of Fantasy, Inc s operators is murdered As Grace is drawn to help solve the crime, her life turns into a scene from one of her own books Yet as one of her biggest fans, investigator Ed Jackson, warns her This isnt fiction Real people die and Grace could be next For shes setting a trap for a killer more twisted than anything she could imagine And not even Ed may be able to protect her from a rendezvous with lust and death