Jo Monfort is beauitiful and rich, and soon she'll graduate from finishing school and be maried off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo secretly dreams of becoming a writer - a newspaper reporter like the trailblazing Nellie Bly.

Wild aspirations aside, Jo's life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: her father is found dead. Charles Montfort accidentally shot himself while cleaning his pistol. One of New York City's wealthiest men, he owned a newspaper and was a partner in a massive shipping firm, and Jo knows he was far too smart to clean a loaded gun. The more Jo uncovers about her father's death, the more her suspicions grow. Then she meets Vernon - a young, smart, infuriatingly handsome reporter at her father's newpaper - and it becomes all too clear how much she stands to lose if she keeps searching for the truth. Only now it might be too late to stop.

Life is dirtier than Jo Montfort could ever have imagined, and the truth is the dirtiest part of all.