California sleuth Kate Jasper's 11th (Murder on the Astral Plane, 1999, etc.) bestows her sweetie Wayne Caruso on her in
a secret (albeit terribly romantic) marriage, but their homecoming is marred first by marauding deer in their garden, then by squabbling among the deer-afflicted locals, and finally by the death of an anti-deer activist who wasn't nearly as murderous as
his opposition.