Leaving her sham of a marriage after twenty years, Tookie is thrown back into the dating game. Then her new boyfriend dies of cancer, and she's desperate to keep her job, the only thing in her life that's working for her. When her Big Pharma employer announces its layoff list, she's given a choice—instead of being downsized, this experienced pharmaceutical statistician, who devours mystery novels like Jujubes, has the option of working with a secret government agency on a mysterious assignment or else searching for a new job while being unemployed. One night with Reggie, the delicious CIA agent she is to team with, makes up her mind for her. A bonus for accepting this mission is that she will get to fulfill her life-long fantasy of being a cortigiana onesta in a foreign land. But when she blows her cover, she's forced to flee, avoiding gun-wielding diplomats, Russian Mafia, and assorted thugs, in a frantic attempt to save her life...