Beautiful Samantha Summers flees a New York City winter after a bitter divorce and lands in a small city on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Her hilarious adventures while confronting quirky characters and a radically different social structure in her new condo complex are complicated by The Wives, the ruling group around the pool.
Then, suddenly and shockingly, Samantha becomes the primary suspect in a bloody murder in the hot tub in the notorious grotto. She must dig deep to recover her inner strength and with her two new best friends must become amateur dectectives to help the sheriff prove that she is innocent.
At the same time, deep corruption inside Port Manatee city hall is threatening the peace and stability of the city. As she fights to save her reputation and beat the murder rap, Samantha discovers the con men that roam Florida preying on the innocent, and learns that not all the sharks live in the Gulf.