Stephanie Plum has lost her job as an underwear buyer and is slowly running out of money and food. Stephanie decides to blackmail her ferret-like cousin Vinnie into a job as a bail enforcement agent, A.K.A Bounty Hunter. Now Stephanie is on the hunt for Joseph Morrelie, the cop accused of murder. He had his head up Stephanie's skirt when she was six and relieved her of her virginity at the bakery when she was sixteen.