Shakespearean actress turned Pinkerton detective Lilly Long and her reluctant partner, Cade McShane, travel to New Orleans to save a young widow from a fate worse than deathโฆ
1881, Chicago. Assigned to her second case as a Pinkerton, Lilly still needs to prove herselfโboth as a novice detective and as a woman in a manโs world. Ordered to once again work with Lilly, Cade needs to redeem himself for conduct unbecoming to a Pinkertonโa grief-driven drunken brawl. As if their forced partnership wasnโt bad enough, the agents must pose as husband and wife servants in the troubled household of a wealthy New Orleans family. An acting challenge if ever there was oneโฆ
The elderly matriarch of the Fortenot family is convinced her grandsonโs former widow has been unjustly committed to an insane asylum by her second husband. She believes the man is attempting to wrest the family fortune away from his new wife. Soon, behind the beautiful faรงade of the Fortenot mansion, the detectives uncover secrets, betrayal, voodoo cursesโand murder. Even as Lilly and Cade chafe against their roles, they must work together to expose the true villain of this tragedy before the hapless widow faces her final curtain call.
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