Mary Magruder Katz, Miami criminal defense attorney, discovers her boyfriend, Carlos, is sneaking away to a rendevous with his ex-wife. Broken-hearted, she returns his engagement ring, packs her dog and her disappointment in her SUV and runs away to Vermont where she holes up in her friend's summer house.

Mary can't stay idle for long. She meets a a young attorney, Dash, who persuades her to do some legal work for him. Meanwhile, Mary reconnects with the daughter of a former client, Sherry Yarmouth, who confides in Mary that she is in the midst of a torrid affair with a local. When Sherry disappears, Mary and Dash comb Vermont's Upper Valley in an all-out search.

As if that isn't enough to keep Mary busy, she lands in the middle of a court fight over a neigborhood spat. Tree removal becomes the village's high publicity case. The plaintiff is dubbed the "tree Nazi, but Mary suspects he may be a real Nazi when he is found murdered.

Will Mary find Sherry before she's killed? And who actually killed the Nazi and the owner of the summer house? How and when will Mary return to Miami?