Jamie Swift is a newspaper owner from a small Southern town, and after the story of a lifetime. Max Holt is the millionaire playboy right in the middle of that story. Despite Max thinking Jamie is a magnet for trouble and Jamie thinking Max is the most annoyingly sexy, and mysterious man she's ever met, the two are fast to partner up. What they uncover together is a story that centers around a corrupt minister, a gang of mobsters on the loose, a hound...

Jamie Swift and Max Holt find themselves taking on a murderer who is targeting some of the less popular citizens of Beaumont, South Carolina, when they discover that the key to the killings lies in the personal ads of the newspaper.

Jamie Swift's job running the local newspaper in Beaumont is complicated by the arrival of her silent partner, Maximillian Holt, who is in town supporting his brother-in-law, former wrestler Frankie Fontana, in his campaign for mayor.