The tiny town of Winter Break is closing their book on a possible murder. Samantha Ivy Towers returns to Winter Break, Kansas, where she spent her summers as a child, to make funeral arrangements for her aunt Bitty. While there, she begins to suspect that her aunts death, which resulted from a fall in her bookshop, wasnt an accident after all. Childhood friend Amos Parker, now sheriff of Winter Break, seems anxious to get Ivy out of town. A missing book, a message scrawled by an unknown person, and an extra coffee cup leave Ivy with more questions than answers.