When an investigator who makes a living digging up the secrets of others is forced to reveal her own, she isn't prepared for the consequences.
Melody Ann Peace has spent most of her adult life acting like someone else. As a senior investigator of MantlePeace Investigative Services, she devotes her time to examining the lives of potential employees for her firm’s ever-growing list of business clients. She makes a living digging up other people’s secrets, the nooks and crannies of their lives that they hide from their family and friends.
When a rich and demanding wife seeks out Melody to discover if her husband is having an affair, Melody reluctantly takes the case. However, she isn’t prepared for the level of attraction she feels for the mysterious man she’s been hired to investigate. Her failure to deal with her feelings leads to an unfortunate encounter and an unexpected high-profile murder.
After Melody becomes a “person of interest,” clients begin re-thinking their relationships with her detective agency, causing a strain in her relationship with her business partner, Christopher Mantle. In order to clear her name and save her agency, Melody embarks on the most challenging investigation of her career. As she delves deeper into the motive behind the murder, she finds that in the world of the rich and powerful, nothing is what is seems.