An heiress on the run. A relentless detective. One kiss could end in disaster.
When a scheme goes off the rails, a troublemaking socialite and a hard-nosed detective are thrown together on a cat-and-mouse caper—with bullets, banter, and one hell of a bad idea: falling for each other.
Toledo, Ohio, 1930: Belva Jean Rodger, twenty-year-old darling of Toledo high society, has gone bust in the crash of ’29. Desperate to salvage some dough, she hatches a scam with a two-bit crook to stage a burglary and cash in on the insurance. But Detective Frank Woodmere, the police department’s most no-nonsense gumshoe, isn’t buying her baloney. Right away, he pegs her as a scheming little swindler.
Then Belva gets kidnapped for ransom. Or so she claims.
Frank’s convinced it’s another hoax—until he and Belva are staring down the wrong end of a pistol. Thrust together on a mad run from Toledo to Detroit, the reluctant duo faces down train chases, gangster shootouts, abductions and alibis. But the real trouble begins when the heat rises between the hard-nosed detective and the mischievous socialite. Belva’s life is at risk, Frank’s badge is on the line—and falling for each other might just be their biggest crime yet.
