It's hard to investigate a women-only commune when you're a man. But then, nothing ever comes easy for "soft-boiled" private eye Bubba Mabry. Bubba thinks his gravy train has finally come in when he's hired by the Ogletroops, publishers of the Albuquerque Gazette, to spirit daughter Margaret out of a New Age commune called WOMB. But he's saddled with an unwanted partner, zealous cult deprogrammer Purvis Reasons. Rescuing Margaret isn't enough for Purvis. He wants to save her soul, and maybe Bubba's, too, while he's at it. Bubba soon finds himself traipsing around the forest outside Taos, New Mexico, trying to sneak peeks at the skinny-dipping WOMBsters, with prayerful Purvis at his heels. But when murder strikes at WOMB, Bubba is elevated from simple trespasser to number one suspect. Bubba has suspects of his own. Could the murderer be Luna, the earthy witch who controls WOMB? Could it be the stranger in the rattling truck who tried to run Bubba down? Or how about the fervent Purvis? It isn't long before Bubba's girlfriend, Gazette reporter Felicia Quattlebaum, arrives in Taos to help him investigate. Just what he doesn't need.