Lady Georgiana is just back from her honeymoon when her husband, Darcy, heads off on another top secret assignment. Left to deal with a cook in the house who resents her, Georgie agrees to accompany her friend Belinda on a trip to inspect a cottage she had inherited. Circumstances force them to reside at the estate of an old boyfriend of Belinda but that man's wife is not so welcoming. And when there is a murder, things get even tenser.