The grandmotherly disposition that food celebrity Hannah Couch dishes out in her bestselling books and on her TV shows is totally missing when Liz Sullivan joins Hannah's San Francisco publicity tour as media escort. In private the lady is unpredictable and cruel, and so is her chief assistant, tight-lipped Naomi. Yet a mysterious missive among Hannah's messages has the power to make both women turn pale, and an innocent bowl of ivy and forget-me-nots delivered to their luxurious suite nearly causes cardiac arrest.

What's cooking? Before Liz can find out, a killer joins the tour, and Liz is in the soup as a front-burner murder suspect....