aFormer debutante Nora Blackbird takes a job as a society page columnist to help pay the bills when her parents skip town leaving her with a land inheritance that comes with a two-million-dollar tax bill, but she finds herself on the investigative beat when she stumbles upon the murdered body of the host at her first party assignment. Nora Blackbird, society columnist and down-and-almost-out former debutante, reclaims her place within Philadelphia's...

Profiling a rich fashion designer for the "Philadelphia Intelligencer," Nora Blackbird reaches out to her sisters and boyfriend for help when her interviewee is suddenly murdered.