amateur sleuth Bridget down inventions and listed by a young woman Julie to look into three inches threats against her life events quickly asked late as Arjuna the South style Buddha's guru with whom Julie lives is murdered tied to his bed as his house as soon but in a fiery release. then Julie is kidnapped in Hell's Ransom Bridget says out to investigate the scattered clues leading her on a twisted Trail from her home to rural Maine to the craigie coast of Nova Scotia there alert by the seductive Susanna she is drawn into the machine nation of the wealthy and powerful Compton family who threatens to involve Bridget in a deadly scheme a deception and death.