What more could likeably downbeat journalist Mike Stanhope want? He has a promising new relationship, a regular writing job, even space in his life to write a second novel. An unexpected legacy from a mysterious benefactor looks like the icing on the cake. Then an apparently simple assignment goes wrong, and before he knows it his world is falling apart. The will is challenged, his job is hanging by a thread, his good name is under threat, his relationship is crumbling, and he's being hounded by the police. A beguiling new woman simply adds further confusion.