Donut Lady, an amateur senior sleuth, sifts through clues. The serial killer squirms under the heat of exposure. It's time for Donut Lady to die.

Karen O'Brien moves to her hometown in south Georgia and buys a charming, old-fashioned donut shop, complete with the owner's dog, cat, and secret recipes. However, shadows and terrifying nightmares from her twelve years in prison disrupt her new life; or are they trying to help?

Her struggle to adapt to civilian life becomes even more complicated when the boy no one cares about except her suddenly disappears from his sketchy living conditions.

While Donut Lady searches for the missing boy and pursues clues to solve a prison murder, the killer stalks her.

A cozy culinary mystery sprinkled with a smidgen of paranormal.