The last thing Jazz Kenneally ever expected was to inherit the fortune of her mother's half-sister, Lysandra Somersby. However, there was no one else for Lysandra to leave it to because she'd alienated just about everyone she ever met. The bounty she leaves Jazz includes a cute puppy and an elegant New York City apartment building with a prosperous bar on the ground floor. Never mind that Jazz is a teetotaler and has rarely set foot in a bar in her life. She now owns one, and that's only one of the problems that comes with the bounty she receives from her late half-aunt, who was murdered on a dark city street not long after a tenant in the building lost his business to arson. A murder of another resident of the apartment building soon follows, and what is the apparent connection between all three crimes? The teetotaler's bar!