Victoria Voeght, a naive seventeen-year-old raised by a wealthy Newport Beach, California, widower, moves into a sorority house near USC and attends her first mixer at a pre-law fraternity. Friendly senior law student Phil Carter gives her can of cola laced with Rohypnol and chats with her until she fades from consciousness. He eases her to his bedroom, sexually assaults her, then makes her available to several of his fraternity brothers.
Victoria is discovered bleeding and unconscious on the sorority porch. After an emergency hysterectomy and eight years of intense psychotherapy, she acts on the philosophy: Never hold a grudge. Just get even. Through revenge one may learn to forgive.
After she discovers Phil Carter’s identity, Victoria uses her feminine wiles to receive an invitation to his room while he attends a legal conference at a local hotel.
When Carter is found dead after bleeding to death following penile amputation, Homicide Detective Terrence Pike calls the law firm's chief investigator, Frank Gooch, his former mentor, to assist in the investigation.
When Harvey Garrison and Roger Zweig follow Carter in death without their penises, another of the firm’s attorneys, Alan Johnston, meets with Pike and Gooch and tells them of Carter’s use of the date rape drug while in law school.
The officers work the new lead to identify the killer. At the same time, Johnston gets a new client, Victoria Voeght, who needs legal assistance with her deceased father’s estate. He finds her attractive and flirty. He asks her to dinner.
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