Life is tough these days for Lydia Smith, licensed para-archaeologist. Seriously stressed-out from a nasty incident in an alien tomb, she is obliged to work in Shrimptons House of Ancient Horrors, a very low-budget museum. She has a plan to get her career back on track, but it isnt going well. Stuff keeps happening.Take the dead body that she discovered in the sarcophagus exhibit. Who needed that? Finding out that her new client, Emmett London, is one of the most dangerous men in the city isnt helping matters either. And thats just todays list of setbacks. Here in the shadows of the Dead City of Old Cadence, things dont really heat up until Wonderful futuristic romance.