1st Place in Chanticleer International Mystery & Mayhem Series Award for the Discount Detective Series. A full moon re-enactment of an ancient human sacrifice ritual turns deadly. An ecofeminist group causes a panic at a climate rally. And a woman involved with both events is kidnapped. Cameron Chandler is a single mom who works for Penny-wise Investigations, an agency located in a suburban shopping Vigilance You Can Afford. Cameron lives with her mother, her two children and an unnamed dog in a carriage house in Seattle. For the most part, it's a good arrangement. When Cameron and her colleague are hired to protect a client's niece at the full moon ritual, they think it's a simple one-night assignment. But they soon find themselves enmeshed in a far-reaching investigation. As the full moon wanes, Cameron confronts a murderer and must choose between doing things by the book or saving herself.