A wealthy family A deadly secret A young woman with more to lose than she knows Josephine Montfort is from one of New York's oldest most respected & wealthiest families Like most well-off girls of the Gilded Age her future looks set
- after a finishing school education she will be favourably married off to a handsome gentleman after which she'll want for nothing But Jo has other dreams & desires that make her long for a very different kind of future She wants a more meaningful & exciting life she wants to be an investigative journalist like her heroine Nellie Bly But when Jo's father is found dead in his study after an alleged accident her life becomes far more exciting than even Jo would wish Unable to accept that her father could have been so careless she begins to investigate his death with the help of a young reporter Eddie Gallagher It quickly becomes clear he was murdered & in their race against time to discover the culprit & his motive Jo & Eddie find themselves not only battling dark characters on the violent & gritty streets of New York but also their growing feelings for each other