Autumn in Paradise, Massachusetts, is usually an idyllic time-but not this season. A Hollywood movie company has come to town, and brought with it a huge cast, team, and a stressed star. Marisol Hinton is very beautiful, fairly talented, and worried out of her wits that her estranged husband’s jealousy might take a dangerous turn. When she turns into the subject of a loss of life danger, Jesse and the rest of the Paradise police division continue high alert.

And when Jesse witnesses a horrifying collision caused by a distracted teenage driver, the political repercussions of her arrest provide him into issue with the local selectmen, the DA, plus some people with very deep pouches. There’s murder in the atmosphere, and Jesse’s popularity as an uncompromising defender of the law-and his life-are at risk.