It is Halloween 1987. The owner of Mandrake Falls Gazette, Shelby Porter can't stand Sheriff Sawyer McIntyre until she needs a fiance and fast. Her adopted Aunt Dolly's health is failing and worrying about Shelby being alone isn't helping. It seems like a kindness to let Dolly believe in a mythical engagement. The trouble begins when faking it starts to feel like the real thing. They've been at each other's throats forever. Has Sawyer always been this mouth-watering? As usual, Shelby is the last to know.