Tricia Pilgrim reluctantly agrees to pick up a sort-of cousin she's never met at a distant bus station and drive him back to Verdeville, Tennessee. She might as well. Everything's already gone wrong with her mini-vacation weekend, there's an emergency at her job, and things can't get any worse. Right? Wrong. Her twice-removed third cousin-in-law turns out to be a hunk who moves like a special forces ninja. And one of them is a magnet for trouble.....