Best-selling crime author Mike Rice – or 'Miz Mike' to her friends – is by nature inquisitive. (Or 'meddling', to her friends!) She also has a heart of compassion that gets her into trouble time and again, and her inability to really hear what God is saying to her doesn't help! So when a beautiful young stranger begs her to investigate the death of her sister, Mike is soon not-too-reluctantly embroiled in a mystery that involves the whole town of Three Prongs. She finds herself rapidly immersed in the illicit subculture in Texas Hill County – from dog fights to kidnappings, jealousy and murder – and her life is thrown into chaos as she takes in two troubled youngsters, to boot. And that's without the animals thrown in!