Lora Godwin, professional hostess to the rich and feckless, makes her living being flattering, witty, and decorative. When she agrees to manage a yacht trip for a reclusive Russian oligarch and some potential business partners, she figures the worst problem she’ll face is keeping her professional distance from the sleazy yet seductive Greek playboy who seems keen to end her six-month, one-week, and three-day sexual dry spell. But when she accidentally stumbles across a woman being held prisoner on the yacht, she finds her “to do” list suddenly includes dodging white slavers, escaping kidnappers, covering up homicides, and trying not to get pulped by the Russian mafia.

When Lora arrives in Switzerland to help an old friend host an authentically Swiss dinner for the world's pickiest travel agent, she figures that the worst thing she’ll have to navigate is her unholy love of chocolate...and maybe a cow or two. Pinkie, meanwhile, has his own agenda—recovering a stolen family heirloom from the well-manicured paws of his larcenous cousin Maurice. But when the police connect a brutal murder to Pinkie’s godfather, Lora and Pinkie must work together to untangle a decades-old mystery of Nazi gold, family secrets, and blackmail—before the killer strikes again.