When Sabrina Wright, bestselling author of sumptuous tales of love lost and found, asks Archy McNally's help to find her missing husband, Archy quickly discovers it's not a simple domestic case. Sabrina's husband did not disappear: it was her daughter who ran off and Sabrina sent the girl's stepfather to find her. Both of them seem to have got lost...

Gillian Wright fled to Palm Beach when she heard the true story of her birth: that Sabrina had the girl out of wedlock, put her up for adoption, then adopted her. Sabrina has never revealed the name of Gillian's father, because he gave her a large sum of money to keep the whole thing quiet. But when local gossips get wind of the story, tongues wag and some very prestigious Palm Beach names seek the help of the resort's most discreet inquirer. Then the gossip turns deadly, and Archy must take a chance in order to unravel a thirty-year-old mystery.