Ashley is a creative writing graduate student who is one thesis away from graduating. Miles Blake, a celebrity murder mystery writer comes to her university to teach. She gets assigned to be his TA, and they strike up a sort of friendship.

Charlotte Moon and her crew are pulled into solving a notorious neighbor's murder out on the greens of their southern, country club neighborhood, The Queen's Crown, a place where rich is relative and the tea is sweet.

A honeymoon goes tragically wrong when new groom, Brendan, falls off a hotel balcony, leaving his bride, Sarah, devastated. When the autopsy points to murder, Sarah must quickly prove her innocence or risk a lifetime separated from her stepdaughter.