Detective Frankie Daniels hates her life - well, what's left of it. After a romance with the wrong man goes bad, the tough Atlanta police detective finds herself 'transferred' to Nowhere, USA. Purdyville, South Carolina, is tantamont to a sentence of death by boredom for the street-smart, chain-smoking cop. The crime rate here is beyond low.....almost as low as Frankie's self esteem.
When Frankie arrives to find her rental home in flames, she proceeds to chew out one of the locals - only to realize she's just told off her new boss, the annoyingly gorgeous and smug Sheriff Matt Webber. But Matt is more intrigued than angry at his new deputy. He suspects life in Purdyville is going to get very interesting indeed, he especially after he watches her take down the local tough guy in two seconds flat.

Nick Kaharchek senses danger the minute he sees Billie Pearce. Happy in her stable home life as a divorced mother of two, she represents everything the footloose Kaharchek's always avoided. But she is also irrestibly fascinating - in a car-crash sort of way. Billie, meanwhile, finds her instinctive response to Kaharcek's attention almost as frightening as the mysterious break-ins in her neighbourhood, and the spider invasions her pest-control man seems unable to beat. As fate brings Billie and Kaharchek ever closer, they are suddenly thrown into a world of mayhem, seduction and terror - but will it lead to love everlasting?