Melody Baker is torn. Torn between a career as a PhD in English and her survival job as a parlor maid. Torn between her loyalty to her Congressman father and to the Colonel, her billionaire employer who is running for US Senate - for the opposing party. Torn between handsome wealthy men who want to bed her and the women who want to seduce her. Torn between her New York City apartment and a Hudson River Valley castle. But events are taking their own course, pulling her from one life into another as the Colonel's campaign ramps up, challenging her convictions. And the political winds are shifting ever more toward the crazy.