Fresh off the Los Angeles red carpet of the movie she produced and starred in, vivacious Charlotte Reade heads to her family home in New Orleans for the funeral of Sassy, the woman who helped raise her mother. When Sassy's 'adopted' twin daughters ask brainy and tenacious Charlotte to help them find their birth mother, she heads down a path that starts in a laundromat in the 1950s and winds through costume experts and a burlesque tour before landing her on the infamous Bourbon Street--Page 4 of cover.