When Prentice Dobson returns to her small hometown in Georgia to mourn her father and sister, Augusta Goodnight appears, claiming to be Prentice's temporary guardian angel. Then it's discovered that the man buried in her uncle's coffin is someone else, and Prenctice and Augusta have plenty to keep them busy.

Things in the town of Stone's Throw, South Carolina, rarely get much spicier than the extra red pepper Lucy Nan Pilgrim sprinkles into her homemade cheese straws. So when an elderly but surprisingly childlike woman calling herself Shirley shows up on Lucy's doorstep looking for her mama, Lucy thinks it must be another of her friend Ellis's pranks. But Ellis doesn't know a thing about it, and what's more, the two suspect the woman might be Ellis's...