Luke Skywalker is juggling martini glasses, and Albert Einstein is dirty-dancing with Monica Lewinsky...Just another night's work for wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid, as she oversees a spectacular Halloween engagement party for a hard-charging Microsoft millionaire and her sweet-natured journalist fiancé.

But come midnight, nobody's dancing. One beautiful bridesmaid is dead, and another is floating in the black waters of Elliott Bay. As dangerous decisions come to light, Carnegie discovers a darker side of love and marriage in high and low Seattle society--while making some tough romantic choices of her own...