"I always have the best of intentions but not always the right execution" ~ Cin Fin-Lathen.

It's summer reunion-band season, and love is in the air. Cin is determined to break her dry spell in this much awaited fourth novel of the Cin Fin-Lathen Mysteries. Elijah, the sexy lead singer of "Ely's Coming," has hired Cin and Harry to investigate a series of incidents that are sabotaging the comeback of his nineties alternative rock band. Cin's son Alex is filling in for their injured bass player while she and Harry investigate. Cin lets her guard down and falls for a member of the band. Can she maintain a professional distance in order to figure out who wants to stop this band from performing?

Cin lets herself go and finds out to her horror that The Wages of Cin could quite possibly be death.