Millie, an ambitious entomologist, and Finn, a grumpy astronomer dealing with personal loss, clash at work but can't avoid each other when he joins the committee for her dream job.

"Sarah Deane is an English teacher by profession, but with these first two adventures she discovers sleuthing--of the strictly amateur variety--may be where her truest passions lie. The first book takes Sarah, still a grad student at this point, out of her natural New England habitat and into the wilds of Texas, where her maybe-boyfriend is keen on a spot of birdwatching. But birds are not all that she spies through her binoculars, and so the adventure...