Gordy Tyler caught a nearly nude female burglar in his home, but he did not call the police. Sex had nothing to do with it: his survival did. In her raincoat, Gordy found a .22 caliber pistol loaded with hollow-point bullets and an illegal silencer. The burglar, Miss Priscilla Lopez-McDonald was searching for three brass and clay tourist trinkets that he bought in the restored ghost town of Jerome, Arizona. Prissy was ordered to shoot Gordy, but she could not do that so she reverted to her ¿show and go¿ trick that always worked before.
Some unsavory crooks wanted Gordy dead. He doesn¿t know them, but Prissy does. Prissy needs Gordy to avoid jail, and to save her ¿baby¿ who is a hostage in Jerome. Gordy chooses to drive Prissy to Jerome in his van with her loosely yet comfortably tethered in the back of the van by an ankle leash to prevent her from running away.
A true free spirit, Prissy is accustomed to getting her way as her natural reward for being so good looking. Overwhelmed by a spectacular sunset on their camp site, Gordy and Prissy become lovers. When he wakes up in the morning, Prissy, his money, keys and the tourist trinkets are gone.
When Gordy calls Dallas, he learns that his neighbor and Gordy¿s dog were killed in a multi townhouse inferno. Gordy and the Fire Marshal both suspect foul play, but Gordy cannot return to Dallas as demanded, so he becomes a fugitive
Prissy tries to con her former friends about her tardy return. When they see Gordy in town, they punch her out and throw her and then Gordy in a locked mine shaft. Both are rescued by Katie and Sean O¿Neill; a retired NSA agent featured in 1988¿Erin Go Kill. To escape, they drive through a gauntlet of gunfire through narrow streets and down a serpentine mountain road to Sedona. Gordy learns that Prissy¿s ¿baby¿ is a Irish wolfhound named ¿Baby.¿
Eventually, Gordy and Sean are at Havasu Falls at the base of Grand Canyon when it gets really exciting.