When Adam Rottman’s childless Aunt Sadie Gold died, the eight cousins learned her estate was in an irrevocable trust, the proceeds going to Adams’s sister Sarah while she lives. After Sarah’s death, the money wold go to the last surviving cousins. It’s a fatal tontine Adam’s lawyer brother Harold set up. Would the cousins kill each other for one million dollars? Sarah’s car is found in the river, but not Sarah. That begins a series of mysterious deaths. Coincidence? Or murder? Who will be next? Adam and his psychologist wife Deborah must stop the chain before he, too, is eliminated.