As Mike Manning grieves over the heroic death of his lover, NY police officer Ken Farley, he gets a call from socialite Mildred Hamilton who confesses to killing her husband and his girlfriend. Drawn into a double murder on a snowy New Year's Eve takes Mike from a Fifth Avenue penthouse to a gay strip bar, a ride on a corporate jet and, finally, to two humpy preppies who do their best to change Mike's grief into unabashed passion. Many private lives go public before Mike uncovers THE MASK OF NARCISSUS to reveal the face of a murderer.