Complete happiness is something that young jockey, Sasha Cormick has little experience with. Pleasure had always been entwined with pain. Bad frequently followed on the heels of the good. Her new life with an exciting new lover is no exception. He makes her feel more deeply and more sweetly than anyone had ever done in her life. But the rivalry from a bitter co-worker and the unrelenting financial demands of her blackmailing brother threaten to gnaw away at her joy until there is nothing left. Will Sasha find the courage to destroy these parasites or will they manage to eat away at her life until there is nothing left?