This is book 40 of the "Stone Barrington" series.

This note contains spoilers for the book.

Stone's life gets exciting while holding a case of secrets from Ed Rawls that could affect the presidential election.

In the end there's doubt the information was ever actually in the case, but it served as a distraction at a useful time.

Meanwhile, he and Holly Barker are both unwilling to give up their high-flying professional lives to live with each other—and apparently they can't conceive of any way to be married that doesn't cost one of them their career, even while watching Will and Kate Lee doing exactly that. Sometimes I think Stone is too stupid to live.