Rose Brady is getting down to her last dollar. In the process of a divorce, and with two young children to support, she's financially strapped. So, when her sister's friend, Shelby, offers her the opportunity to spy on her husband, Rose jumps at the chance to earn some extra money.
Going undercover as a newspaper reporter, she goes even further undercover when she lands a job at the mayor's office, and soon this quirky mother of two realizes that her harebrained scheme to make some extra money wouldn't be as easy as she had thought. There's a festival war going on in mayor's office, and Rose finds herself right in the center of the action. To further complicate things, every time Rose turns around, she seems to run into the movie-star handsome Boone, a real private investigator, or so he says...