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Lesbian self-defence expert and freelance crime fighter Aud Torvingen has trained herself to achieve a fierce, machine-like precision, in hand-to-hand combat as well as life. But, a confrontation with her own limits causes her self-defence classes to spin violently out of her grasp and, still reeling from the consequences, she embarks on a seemingly simple investigation of Seattle real estate fraud that pulls her into something far more complicated and dangerous than she had imagined.