When a down-on-her-luck divorcée meets a determined-to-
dominate detective, they find out that falling in love can
be murder...
Nell Dysart's in trouble. Weighed down by an inexplicable
divorce and a loss of appetite for everything, Nell is
sleepwalking through life until her best friend finagles a
job for her with a shabby little detective agency that has
lots of potential and a boss who looks easy to manage.
Gabe McKenna isn't doing too well, either. His detective
agency is wasting time on a blackmail case, his partner
has decided he hates watching cheating spouses for money,
and his ex-wife has just dumped him...again. The only
thing that's going his way is that his new secretary looks
efficient, boring, and biddable.
But looks can be deceiving and soon Nell and Gabe are
squaring off over embezzlement, business cards, vandalism,
dog-napping, blackmail, Chinese food, unprofessional sex,
and really ugly office furniture, all of which turn out to
be the least of their problems. Because soon, somebody
starts killing people. And shortly after that, they start
falling in love...