Before she met and married the Reverend Thomas Fairchild and moved to sleepy little Aleford, Massachusetts, Faith Sibley Fairchild had a catering business in the most colorful, frenetic, and exciting city in the world... Young, ambitious and single in New York City in the late ´809s, Faith Sibley is energized by the early success of her Have Faith catering enterprise. But she´s cast into an unexpected new role when she runs into old high school friend Emma Stanstead at a swanky uptown party: sleuth! An anonymous blackmmailer is threatening to expose certain secrets of socialite Emma´s less than glamorous past -- thereby destroying her reputation and her conservative husband´s fast-rising political career -- and Faith fearlessly leaps into the fray. Though she lacks experience, Faith´s keen instinct, insight, and determination to unmask and extortionist quickly carry her deep into the high and low life of the bustling Big Apple. And when a murder raises the stakes, Faith realizes that it´s not just her old friend´s good name that´s in peril...it´s Emma´s life itself.