When Nora Ingram-Sheldon learns her fugitive criminal husband had (has?) his crooked fingers in even more May County, Washington businesses, and that his involvement puts her new friends and neighbors at risk, what can she do but go on the hunt—for answers, for culprits, and for cracks she can widen in his many-tentacled money laundering enterprise?

But an omnipresent FBI security detail puts a damper on her movements, plus she's supposed to be a good example for the band of misfit boys in foster care at Mayfield's poor farm.

Maybe undercover is the way to go. Can she sneak away from her faithful executive assistant, Clarice, and Walt Neftali, the boys' guardian?

The tricky part is finding and putting her husband's gangster clients out of commission before they do the same to her.