Blast from Her Past is the first adventure about Rita Pullman, a homemaker and community activist, who finds herself embroiled in intrigue and deception starting at the White House and ending in a suburb of Los Angeles. When Rita gets an opportunity to meet the President and First Lady, she believes that the excitement will end at that meeting. Sending a fan letter to the First Lady, with whom she attended a large high school, rocks Rita's world with mystery and murder. She is thrown into the world of high level politics and pharmaceutical scandal, which puts Rita and her family in more danger than she ever imagined.