The happiest day of Payton Lambert's life was the day she graduated high school and watched Bald Knob, Kentucky get smaller and smaller in her rearview mirror. She wanted more for her life than a tiny town where everyone knows your business and you can t find a decent cup of coffee for at least forty miles. Twenty years later, an unexpected phone call in the middle of the night has her packing up her life in Seattle and moving back home to the one person she ever regretted leaving behind.
Wait, one person Make that two. When the hell did Leo Hudson become sheriff of Bald Knob and get so hot? Band geek and chess club president no more, Leo is wearing a badge and dead set on solving a murder that may or may not involve Payton...along with half the town. You make one little comment about cutting off a man's balls and suddenly you're suspected of killing him.
In a town where the biggest crime happened the day eighty-year-old Starla Godfrey stole a box of donuts (an honest mistake when you have cataracts and a yippy dog named Bo Jangles trying to eat your face), no one is talking, and rumors are spreading like wildfire, but the one thing everyone agrees on is... Jed had to die."