Branch manager of a national travel company, Prudence Peters’ demotion is not the only bad news that begins a week from hell. Offices will close, agents laid-off and no more raises. But one of Pru’s agents is fired and by week’s end she has disappeared.

Pru arrives at her office the following Monday to find a detective waiting for her. Not only is the fired agent still missing, but the state supervisor who fired her has been murdered. Fearing the missing agent will be blamed for the murder, Pru sets out to find her, but everything she discovers laps over into the murder case. Head office in Atlanta claims they authorized no firings and fears for their reputation might close all the offices in Oregon. Pru is desperate to save her office and her job, and find a killer all while keeping her clients traveling.