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...