Chloe Carter's boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, is the executive chef at the new restaurant "Simmer" located on Boston's posh Newbury Street. It has been open for only five and a half months and Josh is working aplenty trying to make this restaurant a smashing success.

Chloe, a trust fund baby, will only receive her full inheritance from Uncle Alan after completing a master's degree in anything. Chloe chose social work and found it to be a better fit than she had anticipated. With final exams upon her and a five month pregnant best-friend with self-esteem issues - Chloe has a full plate!

Than Leandra's dead body is found in the truck owned by Adrianna's fiancé, Owen. Adrianna is Chloe's five month pregnant best friend and Owen is Adrianna's fiancé'. Leandra was a waitress at Simmer and she had been strangled by the ties on an apron from the restaurant. Owen is acting out-of-character and Chloe begins to wonder if maybe he knows something about Leandra's death.

Gavin Seymour, the owner of Simmer and Leandra's boyfriend, contacts Chloe to put together a memory book for Leandra's memorial. Seems to Chloe that a friend closer to Leandra should be the one to put the memory book together but it doesn't appear Leandra has any friends outside of the restaurant Simmer where she worked. To further complicate matters, it doesn't appear anyone who worked with Leandra liked her either.

It's pretty obvious Chloe is going to have to physically extract any positive remarks from Leandra's co-workers regarding their feelings about her. How pathetic is it that no one has anything positive to say about this dead girl? Was Leandra's death a restaurant prank gone awry? Or did someone actually want Leandra dead and if so, why?