Amateur sleuth and bookshop owner Samantha Kinsey is left holding the baby when a couple implicated in a murder at a country club goes on the run. The mother leaves her infant son in Sam's care. Can she both look after the baby and solve the case?

Samantha and Philby attend an Espionage Writers Convention where they meet a former KGB agent-turned-novelist, Alexsandr Tseitsev. Philby and Tseitsev - former adversaries - discover that they deeply respect each other. But later that night, a KGB double agent about to be exposed by Tseitsev murders him. Samantha is seriously injured while trying to catch the fleeing murderer, leaving Philby to follow a trail of cryptic clues to find the killer. While Samantha recovers, Philby plunges into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse and Cold War-era espionage!