Stephanie Plum resigns her job as a bounty hunter, she is looking for something safe and normal. But Stephanie finds out that trouble follows her and a maniac from the past is stalking her, with the sole purpose of putting her into a burial plot of her own. Stephanie is caught between staying alive and staying away from the bounty hunter business, and re-examines her decision to quit the bounty hunter job. There is a possibility that it could be a solution to the immediate problem. Stephanie takes a position in an office, working for a bounty hunter and it gives her the technical access she needs to find her stalker.