Chapter One: Mallory Kalvornek and her lover Julie Hanson have returned to Bronning, Minnesota, for the first time in years to catch up with friends and family. Meanwhile, their old friend (and occasional sex partner) paramedic Nettie Hastings fights to save a life, her lover Hannah drops by with an unexpected surprise, Terry Wilder grapples with writer’s block… and two little girls living in a trailer park named Heather and Gina are being carefully observed by a hidden stranger.
Chapter Two: Mallory and Julie get together at Nettie’s home with Nettie and her lover Hannah, Nettie’s friend Terry Wilder, Terry’s teen daughter Halee, and Mallory and Julie’s friend (and occasional sex partner) Cindy. Gossip is exchanged, memories shared, and an unexpected attraction between Mallory and Terry Wilder reveals itself. Meanwhile, the mother of the two trailer park girls Heather and Gina goes out for a night on the town, oblivious to the presence of the man spying on her home.
Chapter Three: At Nettie’s place, Nettie and Hannah leave the others to indulge in a bit of romantic pleasure, while Julie and her old friend Cindy get it on with Terry’s teen daughter Halee. As for Mallory, she has repaired to Terry’s place for one of her occasional bouts of heterosexual action. Appetites are indulged, confidences shared. Meanwhile, Heather and Gina are abducted from their trailer home by a mysterious and very scary man.
Chapter Four: At Nettie’s place, four women and Halee Wilder greet the morning after an evening of lesbian abandon. Later that day, Mallory rejoins Julie, Nettie, Cindy and Hannah for a day of fishing. Halee returns home and spends the day upgrading her internet in preparation for promised to be a fun night of video chat sex with her girlfriend Bethany. Meanwhile, Grace and Heather are in the custody of the mysterious man, who seems to takes delight in terrorizing them.
Chapter Five: After their day of fishing, Nettie, Julie, Cindy, Mallory & Hannah engage in a five-woman sexfest inside a tent… and with the use of Cindy’s phone, their old friend and occasional bedmate Emma attends the orgy virtually. In the midst of their abandon, Nettie has a weird, vague memory flashback that leaves her shaken, but she conceals it from the others. Back home, Halee and her new love interest Bethany (Hannah’s daughter) are having long-distance sex via their laptops.
Chapter Six: Nettie has a heart-to-heart with Hannah about her personal demons. Later, she gets a call from Agent Bridgett Ramscone, who has an unsettling request: for Nettie to go through the documentation of her own childhood kidnapping — and the murder of her sister — as a possible way to gain insight into the abduction of Heather and Gina (who are still being emotionally abused by their kidnapper, but are also taking steps to escape). Nettie is shaken, but agrees to do what she can.
Chapter Seven: Many years after the fact, submerged memories of Nettie’s kidnapping began to make themselves known — memories of a possible accomplice to the original crime. She shares her thoughts with Bridgett. Meanwhile, Heather and Gina work on a potential escape from their makeshift prison.
Chapter Eight: Nettie unearths more hints that kidnap victims Heather and Gina were abducted by the same man who kidnapped and brutalized Nettie and her deceased sister over a decade ago — but that man was known to have died in prison. Gina manages to escape captivity. But Heather can’t fit through the opening they dug, and must remain behind. Nettie gets a possible fix on the girls’ captor who, while out and about, gets a flat tire — then he discovers the spare is flat as well.
Chapter Nine: The man who kidnapped Gina and Heather must get his flat spare tire fixed, not knowing the police have been alerted to him and are searching the area. Nettie, who is also hunting for the man, manages to find his abandoned car — then, some time later, makes an even more startling discovery: little Gina, alone and weeping by an abandoned road. In the meantime, the kidnapper manages to make his escape from the area by phoning a mysterious woman to pick him up.
Chapter Ten: Mallory meets with her mother, Sharon, for the first time in months, but fails to learn the cause of the recent distance between them. Nettie is still obsessed with Jacob Brentshaw, the man who kidnapped her and murdered her sister Annamarie so many years ago, sensing he is also behind the recent kidnapping as well… but can’t get past the fact that Brentshaw was killed in prison. Her actions saved the lives of Gina and Heather, but she remains determined to keep working the case on her own. For the first time, Nettie tells her lover Hannah about her own kidnapping and Annamarie’s death, events she has refused to discuss with anyone for years.
Chapter Eleven: Terry finds himself at loose ends, questioning his current life path, and decides to open up to than his dear friend and former sex partner Nettie. She and Hannah lend a sympathetic ear, then their conversation turns to kidnappings — the recent one, as well as Nettie’s own horrific abduction over a decade earlier, when her sister was murdered. She is fast coming round to the conclusion that both kidnappings involved an accomplice.
Chapter Twelve: A sleepover is in progress at Terry’s place while he is out. When the girls retire to their rooms, Halee phones her girlfriend Bethany and puts her on speaker to hear her younger sister Naomi and Chelsey going at it through their adjoining walls, and a good time is had by all. Upon returning home, Terry does some work on an idea for a new novel after months of inaction. Mallory is still unsure what to do with the family farm, and Nettie runs some ideas about the recent kidnapping case past Agent Ramscone.
Chapter Thirteen: Four members of the Pussy Posse — Mallory, Julie, Jamie, and Emma — are spending quality time together, along with Julie’s younger sister Vicky. News, gossip, memories, and innuendo are bandied about. Vicky hesitantly speaks of a recent sleepover where she overheard a couple of the girls saying hurtful things about her, an incident that still stings badly. The four women offer her comfort and understanding, which soon becomes something more.
Chapter Fourteen: Mallory, Julie, Jamie, Emma and Julie’s younger sister Vicky are having a barbecue and sleepover. Vicky loves hanging out with the Pussy Posse, but feels a little self-conscious, knowing that the women will very likely be having group sex later that evening. But Julie boldly her sister to join the sapphic festivities. Vicky is hesitant at first, especially at the prospect of coupling with her older sibling, but Julie manages to put her at ease. The four women and one teen adjourn for the master bedroom. Clothes are removed, bare bodies mingle, pleasure is shared.
Chapter Fifteen: Halee and her new girlfriend Bethany (daughter of Nettie’s lover Hannah), spend time roaming the town, getting to know one another better. Later on, they spend time together in a more intimate way. Meanwhile, Mallory and her partner Julie get a piece of surprising, potentially life-changing news.
Chapter Sixteen: Mallory is pregnant, and Terry Wilder is the father. She visits Bronning to give him the news, then they join Julie at Nettie’s place to discuss the situation. Terry chooses to leave the final decision in Mallory’s hands, but makes it clear that he is willing to raise the child as his own if Mal doesn’t want to be a mother.
Chapter Seventeen: Nettie pays a visit to the trailer park to visit Gina and Heather, the two girls she saved from a mysterious kidnapper. Still grappling with distant memories of her own kidnapping, she shows the girls a mugshot of Jacob Brentshaw, who was convicted of abducting her and murdering her twin sister Anna years earlier, but they tell her it isn’t the same man, despite disturbing similarities. Afterward, she gets an angry call from FBI agent Latisha Miller, who already knows about this visit to the girls and strongly disapproves. Nettie admits to pursuing this all-but-closed case, but refuses to back off. Against her better judgment, Agent Miller is coming around to allowing Nettie to continue her investigation. Meanwhile, Mallory, Julie and Terry visit a doctor to discuss Mal’s unexpected pregnancy.
Chapter Eighteen: Nettie manages to get approval from Agents Ramscone and Miller to proceed with her personal, off-the-record investigation of the kidnapping case, by making both women an offer they can’t refuse — and it isn’t sexual. Afterwards, her lover Hannah drops by for an early visit, and the two of them join Julie, Mallory, Halee and Terry for a pleasant chat where Mal drops the news about her pregnancy to those who don’t yet know about it. The next day, Mallory and Julie hang out with Halee and her new girlfriend Bethany, where the girls makes Julie and Mal an offer they can’t refuse — and this time, it IS sexual.
Chapter Nineteen: We momentarily put our kidnapping mystery to one side as two female couples come together for a stimulating foursome. Mallory and Julie share a bed with their younger friends Halee and Bethany. Partners are swapped, pleasure is shared, orgasms are had.
Chapter Twenty: Nettie steels herself to phone Melissa Brentshaw, the sister of Jacob, the man who went to prison (where he was later murdered) for kidnapping Nettie and her sister sixteen years earlier. Though apprehensive at first, Melissa finally agrees to meet with Nettie, but not until she returns from a two-week vacation. Mallory and Julie float the idea of leaving their life in Boulder and returning to Bronning to raise their baby among family and friends. Vicky gets invited to a sleepover by her friend, Chrissy Moen. A possible complication: Chrissy also wants to invite Patty Spisak, who insulted Vicky rather badly at a previous sleepover. Chrissy claims, however, that Patty is genuinely sorry for what she said, so Vicky goes along with her friend’s plans.
Chapter Twenty-One: Mallory spends some quality time with her lover Julie, who finds herself really getting into repairing a decrepit tractor that Mal’s dad never got around to working on himself. Vicky and Crissy get together for their planned sleepover, along with awkward, introverted Patty Spisak, who offers a tearful apology for going along with a friend who insulted Vicky (and her stepsister Julie) at an earlier sleepover. Her apology is accepted, then the girls relax and chat for awhile. The conversation inevitably turns to sex, and things get interesting.
Chapter Twenty-Two: Vicky, Chrissy and Patty get carried away in their sexual curiosity, and new frontiers are explored. Meanwhile, family members of the late Jacob Brentshaw (convicted of the long-ago kidnapping of Nettie and the murder of her sister), meet for a discussion of urgent matters.
Chapter Twenty-Three: Mallory, Julie in tow, visits her beloved grandmother Paulette to inform her of Mal’s pregnancy. The three of them also discuss the problem of Mal’s mother Sharon, who seems to be dealing with serious emotional problems and keeping them completely to herself. Later, newly anointed FBI trainee Nettie is given her very own handgun. Meanwhile, Vicky’s new friend and sex partner Patty Spisak is walking through town when she encounters Sarah Spencer, the girl who made hurtful homophobic remarks about Vicky (and Vicky’s stepsister Julie) at a recent sleepover.
Chapter Twenty-Four: Vicky, with the help of her family, makes plans to purchase a baroque lute. She travels with Mallory, Julie and Patty Spisak to pick up the instrument from its owner, a musician named Lacey O’Donnell. The five of them spend a very pleasant afternoon discussing music, among other topics. Meanwhile, three members of the Brentshaw family are having a meeting about how to respond to continued scrutiny of the recent kidnapping of Heather and Gina Dulcey, and how best to keep themselves from getting collared for their crime.
Chapter Twenty-Five: Once it’s discovered that Lacey O’Donnell, the middle-aged musician who is selling her lute to Vicky, is a lesbian, their little get-together with Mallory, Julie and Patty becomes much more. Another submerged memory from Nettie’s long-ago kidnapping emerges from the murk, and it pays off in a big way when Nettie finally gets to meet with Melissa Brentshaw (sister of Jacob Brentshaw, who was convicted for the crime). The two women have a most enlightening discussion, but they are also seen together by a most interested party…