The fortysomething cop-turned-P.I. has enough on her hands, dodging her mother's plans to turn Maggie's upcoming wedding to partner Bill Malcolm into an 800-guest circus. Then a friend asks them to provide security at the wedding uniting Florida's answer to the Hatfields and McCoys. And to top the week off nicely, they're hired to find a runaway bride--Maggie can empathize!--whose path intersects with a very dead, very murdered body.

Murder always gives Maggie hives. Add that to her own prewedding jitters and a sudden crisis of confidence about her new profession… Well, suddenly she's thinking that staying single--and becoming a bartender--might be better choices after all….