A spoiled heiress must investigate her grandmotherâs death in order to gain back her trust fund, all while discovering how to be her own person and maybe even in falling in love in this rom-com meets murder mystery.
When Pomona Afton, Upper East Side hotel heiress, stumbles out of a gala and upon the scene of her grandmotherâs murder, her first thought is that the society queen wonât be missed for her kind, cookie-baking ways. In fact, she was mean, greedy, and paranoidâso paranoid that she secretly slipped a clause into her will mandating that, should she die an unnatural death, all the family assets get frozen. And if the âunnatural deathâ isnât explained? Those accounts stay frozen.
Practically overnight, Pomona is locked out of her penthouse with no other option than to move in with a roommate: Gabe, the irritable (yet handsome) son of her former nanny. Not only is his apartment cramped, but it doesnât even have a doorman. Or a chef! Pom needs someone to solve this murder, like, yesterday, so she can get her trust fund back.
And Gabe? He needs this murder solved because thatâs the only way his mother, who toiled for the Afton family for years, will ever get the retirement money she deserves. As Pomâs family clams up, blocking the police at every turn, Pom quickly realizes that if she wants her glamorous life back, sheâs going to have to put on her big-girl Manolos and do it herselfâŚwith the help of Gabe, who sheâs falling for more and more by the day.
Can Pomona Afton (who previously couldnât solve a crossword in the bath on a hungover Sunday) actually solve this murder? And if she does return to her former life of luxury, will it be worth the possibility of losing Gabe?