Best selling mystery writer Maggie Kelly has conquered nicotine withdrawal, being a suspect in the murder of her publisher, even being very nearly drowned. But she's yet to fully accept that her fictional hero, the Viscount St. Just, has crawled out of her imagination and into her life, taking on the persona of real life hero. Couldn't he one day poof out just as easily as he'd poofed in?
Still, a hero is just what Maggie needs when she travels home to Ocean City, New Jersey, to convince her parents to reconcile (otherwise, her mother might want to come live with her), only to see her father being hauled away in handcuffs, accused of using his bowling ball to smash in the skull of one the league's other members. Here we go again...