Summertime, and the living should be easy. Schoolās out, and Lainie Lovett is on vacation, spending her mornings running sports clinics for children and her evenings playing with the Rockettes. But things get a whole lot less easy when one of Lainieās teammates urges her to visit Sunrise Village, an assisted-living residence for the elderly, where various items have gone missing: a ring, a jewelry box, a bottle of prescription medicineā¦and George Vandercloopās considerable fortune, which heād kept stuffed inside his mattress and which disappeared the night he died. Plenty of people at Sunrise Village had access to his apartmentāhis neighbors, the staff, his relatives, and the newly hired director of maintenance, who may just be the long-lost son of the Rockettesā distinctly un-motherly coach. Who stole Georgeās money? And if he didnāt die of natural causes, who killed him?
Lainie doesnāt need another mystery to solve, but Sunrise Village needs Lainie. The place teems with romantic intrigue, rivalries, gossip, raptures over the dining roomās chocolate cakeāand possible crimes. Lainie will do her best to uncover the truth. But will she still be among the living when the assisted-living establishment is done with her?