Jacqueline Kirby decided to get away from Coldwater College in Nebraska A trip to New York would be ideal and, as the assistant head librarian at the college she can take the trip as a tax deductible professional expense she will attend the convention of the Historical Romance Writers of the World The visit is everything that Jacqueline thought it would be and more First Dubretta Duberstein, the scandal columnist, dies under mysterious circumstances She did have a bad heart, of course! Then Valerie Valentine asks Jacqueline for help Someone, it seems, is threatening to kill the novelist