Relaxation is not in the cards for Assistant District Attorney Angelique Beignet as she arrives at an elite mecca for intellectuals and is saddled with a new case. A famous rock star has been incinerated in his car and Angelique's friend has been drugged and raped. She then discovers that the privileged college athletes she had unsuccessfully prosecuted for assaulting an exotic dancer live on the grounds of the Chautauqua Institution on the estate of their powerful grandmother. Alarms escalate as more murders occur. Angelique suspects a serial killer and enlists the aid of the Goddess Circle, a group of professional women who access altered states of consciousness to solve crimes in this romantic thriller.