Amateur sleuth Caroline Kent and Newport Police Detective Hank Nightingale are reunited in this second in the Newport Mystery Series. What had begun as a promising relationship between the two in Murder Stalks A Mansion has ended It is only when another mansion murder occurs that the two are brought back together to solve this new case. The gala June engagement party of Imogen Revel in the ballroom of Mon Plaisir, her family's Newport mansion, is tragically interrupted by the death of her fiance Hugh after drinking from a glass of poisoned burgundy. The death becomes even more mysterious when it is discovered that the glass had been Imogen's, not Hugh's. Which was the intended victim? Caroline, who had been standing next to Hugh when he collapsed, becomes the chief witness whom Hank must question when he arrives at Mon Plaisir to investigate the murder. But before this case is solved, Caroline faces deadly danger from an unexpected adversary and gains surprising insight into her relationship with Hank.