In the novella Whole Lotta Love, a successful 29-year-old Sino-American entrepreneur named Xu Tang, a part-time heroin smuggler, is found murdered in Chicago‘s Chinatown, and her casual Mexican boyfriend, Jose Agave, is indicted for murdering her. Agave is freed unexpectedly when one of the jurors in his murder trial, a promiscuous legal secretary named Carlotta Jeffries, refuses to find him guilty and forces a hung jury. In the aftermath, the lives of Jose Agave and Carlotta Jeffries, now forever linked, are turned upside down when everyone around them mysteriously dies one by one.