Keller is an assassin - he is paid by the job and works for a mysterious man who nominates hits and passes on commissions from elsewhere. Keller goes in, does the job, gets out: usually at a few hours' notice... Often Keller's work takes him out of New York to other cities, to pretty provincial towns which tempt him into moving to the woods and the lakeshores. Almost but not quite.

Then one job goes wrong in a way Keller has never imagined and it leaves him with a big problem. With an orphan on his hands and his conscience, Keller is looking at a whole lot of changes he's not sure he wants... He may even end up sharing his bed.