Samantha Reynolds sets off for college, leaving her best friend Sean Cooper behind just when their friendship had started to blossom into something more. Sean leaves on a basketball scholarship
at a major university while Samantha sets her sails for culinary school in Atlanta.
Over the years they lose touch until ten years later when Samantha is a prominent chef in an Atlanta restaurant. When her mother's untimely death shocks her world, Samantha heads home to
Savannah, Georgia, where she hopes to lead a calmer life. Instead, she ends up entangled in a mystery her mother was trying to solve.