Keeping Rita Fontaine, awashed-up 1960s teenage rock star, out of jail is a tough job. It's nothing less than murder when Stu Hightower,the vain, temperamental president of athriving Atlanta recording company, is found murdered in the den of his posh home. His only companions are the slug in his heart and Rita, dead drunk and looking guilty. Callahan believes in Rita's innocence, but discovering who killed Hightower could send her floating down a river of lost dreams without a paddle.