Sammy Joyce accepts a position as a health-care advisor to the President and soon finds herself knee-deep in the middle of a White House scandal involving alcohol and a secret deal with an Indian pharmaceutical company that threatens to tear apart the entire administration.
In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Jiminy abruptly quits law school and flees to her grandmother Willa's farm in rural Mississippi where she stumbles upon a long-ago murder mystery.
A mildly hypochondriac but sweet young senatorial aide takes everything mean old Washington can throw at her while giving her all to a possible national program to lower prescription costs for senior citizens.
Twenty-six-year-old Sammy Joyce, health care analyst for a U.S. senator, falls for the speechwriter for a rival senator she cannot stand and finds herself stumbling through love, Capitol Hill politics, and the campaign for president.
