After leaving her glamorous job at a top home and garden magazine and fleeing Manhattan for Montauk, Meg Barrett's efforts to start a new interior design business involve her in investigating the murder of an old friend's mother.

When rare books begin disappearing from the Bibliophile Bed and Breakfast, resulting in the death of an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript authenticator, Hamptons interior designer Meg Barret becomes caught up in catching a killer before the book closes on another victim.