The gala June engagement party of Imogen Revel in the ballroom of Mon Plaisir, her family's Newport mansion, is tragically interrupted by the death of her fiancé Hugh Dockings after drinking from a glass of poisoned burgundy. The death becomes even more mysterious when it is discovered that the wine goblet had been Imogen's, not Hugh's. Which was the intended victim? Amateur sleuth Caroline Kent and Newport Police Detective Hank Nightingale are reunited in this second in the Newport Mystery series.