Nora Blackbird, society columnist and down-and-almost-out former debutante, reclaims her place within Philadelphia's elite when she stumbles upon the murdered body of a millionaire art collector.

John Snow is a brilliant aeronautics inventor who has everything a man could desire: wealth, family, and a beautiful mistress. He also has a rare form of epilepsy that can only be cured by a surgery that will leave him with no memory of his past. But the night before the surgery, he is found dead and the police believe he committed suicide-- or was he murdered? Forensic scientist Dr. Frank Clevenger digs into Snow's complex past and his complicated...