Two years ago Sally Harrington abandoned the adrenaline rush of working for a Los Angeles magazine to return home to Castleford, Connecticut. Now she works for the local paper, chasing leads from Crazy Pete Sabatino, the town's conspiracy theorist, and is on again, off again with her high school boyfriend. Then a chance encounter changes everything and Sally is offered a job writing a piece for Expectations, a high-end tabloid magazine. Her assignment is to write an expose on Cassy Cochran, president of the powerful DBS TV network in New York. While running back and forth between New York and Castleford, Sally finds she's juggling two lifestyles, two jobs, even two men. But her worlds collide when she's drawn into a murder investigation - a murder that according to Crazy Pete is directly linked to the death of Sally's father, some twenty years ago.