海关工作人员正在四处寻找皮特·里奇的各种消息。皮特·里奇被卷入一桩巨大的毒品走私案，而且使这桩走私交易中的头头。警察局官员、美丽动人风情万种的马德琳娜·哈勒为了取得走私头子皮特·里奇的信任，开始乔装打扮进入地下走私团体。不久，通过一位中间人，她就见到了传说中的皮特·里奇。他们开始进行愉快的交谈。但不幸的是，就在谈话进入高潮的时候，里奇的随从之一和一位名叫强尼·马科林的人闯了进来。他们挑起了一场猛烈的对质，想要查明马德琳娜·哈勒的真实身份。从那一刻起，哈勒就处在一种极度的危险中，因为它必须考虑有关走私的每一个具体操作是什么。

South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.

Crystal 'Chris' Benson, a single mother in a small New Mexico town, senses a shadowy menace stalking her in the night. She acquires a gun and makes arrangements anticipating her own death, tape-recording a message for her teenage daughter which (in flashback) tells of her involvement with Steve Blackford, who has very good reason to hate her. Chris is determined and resourceful, but Steve has had 18 years to plan revenge. Doom closes in...

Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.