When Beverly Laborde becomes a con artist to exact revenge on the man who shut down her grandmother's antiques business and sent her to an early grave, she comes face to face with the handsome but haunted Vermont police detective, Adam Dutton�??who doesn�??t know whether to arrest her or ask her out on a date. But Beverly and Adam soon face an even worse problem than their inconvenient growing attraction toward each other: they've both incurred the wrath of the wealthy and formidable Reginald Forsythe. Forsythe�??s criminal tendrils seem to reach into all areas of Vermont politics and the Northeastern Antiquities League. And he�??ll do anything to keep his dark secrets safe. Beverly and Adam enlist the help of a sympathetic antiques dealer and the mysterious �??Mr. X,�?� but will it be enough to prove Forsythe is guilty not only of theft and bribery but possibly murder? Beverly and Adam soon learn that even though they may not be able to outgun their nemesis individually, they just might have a fighting