Lexi Smith is a wisecracking and incurably curious young Los Angeleno who is woefully under-employed in her job as a designer of disposable lingerie (Fundies®). She asks nothing much more from life than a rent-free bungalow tucked into the backyard of her family’s Southern California home, afternoons at the beach, and hanging with her close-knit group of similarly overeducated-yet-underemployed friends. All that gets turned on its head when her laptop is stolen in a beachfront crime spree. Good news: the police have the perpetrators. Bad news: the laptop they return is not hers, but that a B-list Hollywood screenwriter and author of a blockbuster 1970s nove l. When he turns up spectacularly dead in his own swimming pool, and his Beverly Hills home is blown up on prime time, Lexi sets out to reclaim her property and gets caught up in an investigation that embroils her with a ruthless, charismatic demi-cult leader who has a secret he’ll do anything to protect. Aided by her diverse and loyal group of friends, she ultimately uncovers and faces down the murderer – almost losing her life, and her adored niece, in the process.