Before she met and married the Reverend Thomas Fairchild and moved to sleepy little Aleford, Massachusetts, Faith Sibley Fairchild had a catering business in the most colorful, frenetic, and exciting city in the world...Young, ambitious and single in New York City in the late 809s, Faith Sibley is energized by the early success of her Have Faith catering enterprise. But shes cast into an unexpected new role when she runs into old high school friend Emma Stanstead at a swanky uptown party: sleuth! An anonymous blackmmailer is threatening to expose certain secrets of socialite Emmas less than glamorous past -- thereby destroying her reputation and her conservative husbands fast-rising political career -- and Faith fearlessly leaps into the fray. Though she lacks experience, Faiths keen instinct, insight, and determination to unmask and extortionist quickly carry her deep into the high and low life of the bustling Big Apple. And when a murder raises the stakes, Faith realizes that its not just her old friends good name thats in peril...its Emmas life itself.