Stoner McTavish finds her life exhausting and dull. In Boston, there is heat and monotony, her desk is a mess, and her business partner wants to install dessert vending machines in the office. Then Stoner receives a strange assignment from her aunt - she is to protect a complete stranger whose husband wants to murder her in the Rocky Mountains. Stoner, the eternally anxious, shy romantic, is not really a heroine... or is she?.