Abby Cooper is a bit of a klutz and a bit of a dreamer, but all in all she's a nuts and bolts kind of girl. She's a waitress at Marge's Breakfast Boutique where she works part-time while she patiently, doggedly, builds her Internet research business-indagatus.com. She's thirty-five, single and as frustrated as Captain Hook's crocodile. She's given up on marriage, Mr. Right, and the happily-ever-after myth. The one thing she hasn't given up on is becoming a mom. While trying to formulate a plan for self invitrofertilization she winds up on the wrong side of town where curiosity draws her n a shabby pawnshop where she finds her mother's long lost locket. From the moment Abby walks out of the pawnshop her life takes a dangerous turn-a turn that leads to murder