A long-closed charm school. A contentious divorce. A smothering mother. The murder of a mysterious woman. The Kennedy assassination. Fledgling researcher and newly single Mindy McMann just can't catch a break. She might not even live. Mindy McMann's life has gone upside down. While divorcing her cheating husband, she has to maintain good relations with her teenaged son, convince her overprotective mother that she is not going to move back in with her, and find a way to support herself. Non-fiction author and decided eccentric Darryl Knedsyn offers Mindy a job as a researcher for a book about the long-defunct Miss McCallum's College of Charm, which seems absolutely perfect... until the underground vault at prestigious Carlisle College where she is working in the charm school's archives is broken in to. Perfect until a mysterious unknown woman who bears a strong resemblance to Mindy is brutally attacked in the archive storage area. Perfect until Mindy is accused of her murder. Without knowing how it happened, Mindy finds herself the target of mysterious people who for reasons she doesn't understand mean her harm. Then she discovers the Kennedy connection, and things get really dangerous.