Retired newspaper reporter Henrietta (Henrie O) O’Dwyer Collins responds to a former lover’s call for help and discovers that love, once kindled, never burns to ashes.

Henrie O turned down Jimmy Lennox’s marriage proposal. He later married Sophia Montgomery, world famous documentary film maker and step-mother to the now-grown heirs of a fortune. If Sophia approves, the heirs can receive control of their trust funds. Sophia decides to take the entire family on a Baltic cruise and then she will make her decision. Jimmy persuades Henrie O to join them on the luxury cruise. Jimmy hopes Henrie O will defuse the tension, but one of their fellow travelers has murder in mind.