During the annual meeting of the Mayflower Society at D.C.'s Continental Club, Kit Marshall is pressed by her future mother-in-law to set a wedding date and choose a venue. A reprieve comes when the head of the society, a multimedia tycoon, is murdered. The prime suspect is Kit's fiancé's father. With the Hollingsworths' reputations and freedom at stake, Kit sets out to find the real killer.

When Senate Staffer Kit Marshall stumbles upon her boss's dead body, she becomes the prime suspect in his murder. If she ever hopes to work on Capitol Hill again, she must prove she had nothing whatsoever to do with his death. And that means finding the real killer. Book 1 in the Washington Whodunit mystery series.

During a government shutdown, Kit's congresswoman boss is found standing over the dead body of a top staffer she tangled with in front of the press. The police are about to name her as the prime suspect in his murder. The weapon was the Speaker's gavel, an item entrusted to Dixon at the time. The killer knows Kit is on the case. Can she solve the mystery in time to save her job and her life?