Eight year old Charlotte Beauford inherits an ice cream factory and mansion from her honorary uncle, C.B.who has died mysteriously when a swarm of killer bees surround him while he's testing a kite to include as a premium in his latest ice cream bar.
A golden limousine chaufferred by an overgrown gooseberry named Huckleberry picks Charlotte and her grandmother up the next day to begin life as one of the world's youngest C.E.O.'s. A tame leprechhaun named Chantilly befriends the two of them. A disgruntled factory supervisor named Harry Karry who hoped to take over the factory himself tries to outwit her by packaging her and her grandmother as ice cream bars. Good overcomes evil and he does not succeed. A surprize ending awaits enthralled readers.