Beltway doyenne Samantha Calhoun relishes teaching certain young congressmen everything she knows. But when her latest fling, married U.S. Rep. Quentin Wilson, is found dead in Samantha's home, she turns to longtime friend Molly Malone. Molly soon learns that Wilson had been researching a financial bill sponsored by a veiled coalition of politicians -- the same bill that her niece Karen Grayson was investigating when she was murdered.