This is a shattering, powerful story. It begins in 1969 when one of Houston's most celebrated young women falls mysteriously ill in a great colonial mansion. She is Joan Robinson Hill, a society horsewoman of world rank and hte must photographed wife of Dr. John Hill, a talenting and ambitious plastic surgeon. Together they are the quintessential Texans -- the larger-than-life Texans of myth. Rich, attractive, reckless. Their story moves at an unrelenting pace from the moneyed elegance of River Oaks, one of America's most exclusive confines, deep into the brutal and deadly underbelly of society, the world of professional killers.