A fake telephone engineer, a suspected white slaver, a beautiful au pair and an irate literary agent are just four of the people in the lives of Rupert and Amy Wilde. How these four individuals shape events is even stranger than one of Rupert's books.

Rupert and Amy Wilde are broke—again. Friend Helen Bardsley's weekend invitation will at least save them from starving. But they soon wish they had stayed at home…bread and water are preferable to blood and tears.