stephanie plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course shes been shot at spat at cussed at firebombed mooned and attacked by dogs stephanie thinks its time for a change so she quits she wants something safe and normal but the kind of trouble she had at the bail bonds office cant compare to the kind of trouble she finds herself facing nowstephanie is stalked by a maniac returned from the grave for the sole purpose of putting her into a burial plot of her own hes killed before and hell kill again if given the chance caught between staying far away from the bounty hunter business and staying alive stephanie reexamines her life and the possibility that being a bounty hunter is the solution rather than the problem after disturbingly brief careers at the button factory kan klean dry cleaners and cluckinabucket stephanie takes an office position in security working for ranger the sexiest baddest bounty hunter and businessman on two continents tempers and temperatures rise as competition ratchets up between the two men in her life her onagain offagain boyfriend tough trenton cop joe morelli and her boss ranger can stephanie plum take the heat can you