Stranded in the South of France after an EMP wipes out all international travel, electricity and communications, Jules Hooker thinks life can’t get any worse… …Right up to the moment when France decides to move all stranded aliens to refugee camps. Add to her problems a murder in the local café that implicates a dear friend and the fact that she’s being forced to marry her arch nemesis in order to avoid the detention camp and you have a very tense summer for one very tense ex-pat. Will she have to marry Detective Matteo? Will her dearest pal end up paying for a murder he didn’t commit? And finally, will Jules really have to leave the twins to live behind barbed wire with no freshly brewed coffee or croissants?