Your plans for a mountaineering holiday fall apart when your nemesis Grendel Jinx intervenes — again. Your boss diverts the budget for dealing with her toward other priorities, demotes you, and replaces you with someone more ruthless. The only thing you have left is the holiday itself. Grendel, hearing where you are headed, decides to follow — the location stirs memories of her first solo mission, and she intends to finish what she started, with or without your cooperation.