Sara is a former international adventure racer and Everest climber working as a detective after her husband left. The brutal murder of a knight at the Renaissance fair will be her most grueling case. If she doesn't solve it, her boss could lose the mayoral race to Foster, a drug lord whose campaign decries the police chief's incompetence. Her boss sticks Sara with Ryker, a paunchy big city cop hellbent on taking Foster down since NYPD failed. How can she work with this alien who scorns exercise and has never set foot in a wilderness They have only nine days until the fair ends and 800 rennie artisans and entertainers move on. pThe knight was a womanizer and bully giving motives to a motley crew of suspects Knights Invincible, Scots, Roma, a crazed Viking, adulterous queen, and belly dancer's lover. After-hour parties in the Scot and Roma camps are rife with the power struggles and romantic intrigues that interweave their lives. Sara and Ryker are also dealing with the specter of their