Horticultural heroine Louise Eldridge's TV show, "Gardening with Nature", has made her subject to an unwanted infestation of house guests. The only guest Louise is happy to see is her ex-flame, investigative journalist Jay McCormack. But when Jay is found face down in a neighbor's fish pond, it's clear that his cover's been blown. Soon Louise is digging up dirt on the Capitol's cream of the crop, in an exciting tale of muckraking, murder, and buried secrets, seeded throughout with gardening tips.