While awaiting trial over the controversial death of her son, Ruby Murdoch manages to slip beneath the radar and escape from the state, the press, and an entire nation screaming for a verdict. When a bail bondsman discovers the FBI is trying to keep quiet on her disappearance, he sends bounty hunter, Ashley Winters, to keep her out of sight until the state coughs up a reward for her capture. Originally published in the book "Faulty Wiring," and serving as an introduction to "The Bounty Hunter Chronicles," this tales twists around the humanity of two people the world would otherwise see as villains.