Maggie Bloom wants nothing more than to paint her decorative flowerpots and admire the marsh view from her Hilton Head Island home. Her idyllic life changes, however, when a yacht explodes in the famed Harbour Town Yacht Basin, and a man onboard is killed. The sheriff thinks Joey Archer, a fishing boat captain, deliberately caused the explosion, but before he can make an arrest, Joey disappears. Tiffany, Joey's young, blond and very distraught wife, begs Maggie to help her find her husband and clear his name. Reluctantly, Maggie agrees. She has problems of her own. An old love and an old husband have both come for a visit, and both are hoping to win her back. But, when someone tries to kill her by pushing her into the harbor and holding her under a boat propeller, Maggie decides to put her romantic two-step on hold and get on with her sleuthing - before she's too dead to dance.