Marv and his crew experience naked terror as Gustav Schmitt reveals his true colors, with Myles and Valerie gatecrashing the party in the worst way possible. Things escalate fast – who will survive, and what will be left of them? Meanwhile, Marcy and Penny have a breakthrough… or do they?

Valerie's getting dirty phone calls, but when she goes to take revenge she meets Myles, the man of her dreams. But Myles is up against Emil and Gustav, mentally unstable guns for hire. And Valerie's sister Penny's friend Marcy just wants to play her own songs, but no one in the bar tonight cares- least of all Penny's loser boyfriend Marv and his buddies Chip and Jev, who want their homeboy Mike to play the race card in a dubious scheme to get rich. But Mike has just fallen foul of a certain organisation with a lot of Ks in its name. And then there's Mister Fluffy.

Call-Me-Dave comes to a shocking understanding about his path in life, while Gustav attempts to mobilize some extremely unwilling troops. Mr. Monsta makes sweet love, which is bad news for whoever's on the receiving end. Myles and Valerie prepare for a showdown – but is Valerie a little too prepared? It’s too late to worry now, as Marv and his crew head for their rendezvous with fate...

The dust settles, the guns fall silent, and everyone lives happily ever after... apart from all the people that don't. Five hundred pounds of instant death shows up at Myles and Valerie's door, while Marv and Penny finally get a chance at true love, but will it be with each other? Call-Me-Dave flies off to the land of dreams, Jev gets the worst news in the world, and at long last Marcy gets to sing her own song. The cast set sail on sea of romance!

Includes a reading group guide with discussion questions.

Myles and Valerie's face-off with the appallingly German Schmitt brothers takes an unexpected turn, while Marv's plans for Mike turn out to be inappropriate and then some. Meanwhile, Penny tells Marcy the sorry tale of what she caught Marv doing on the internet, Call-me-Dave comes a-calling, and love blossoms while bullets fly...

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