Charlotte LaRue, owner of New Orleans's Maid for a Day cleaning service, is swept into jeopardy when an uninvited guest arrives on her doorstep.

Though she's short two employees at Maid For A Day, Charlotte answers a desperate plea from a woman named Emily Rossi the weekend before Mardi Gras. Emily's husband just happens to be the most ruthless crime boss in the country and when he is found dead in the library, there is Emily, standing over him with a bloody knife.

Doing a favor for a friend in need has Charlotte cleaning rooms at the New Orleans Jazzy Hotel. The historic Garden District mansion is serving as a home-away-from-home for Shreveport's chapter of the Red Scarf Sorority, a group of socially elite women in their forties. While picking up beautiful red silk scarves from the floor of a room she's cleaning, Charlotte is startled by the sudden arrival of its ranting and raving occupant. Charlotte is stunned...