When Mary George Murphy finds that her Aunt Caroline fell down a flight of stairs to her death, she's heartbroken. To make matters worse, Mary is sure that Caroline's death was no accident. Enter Augusta Goodnight, Mary's guardian angel. Normally assigned to Heaven's strawberry fields, Augusta died during WWII -- which explains her old-fashioned glamour and love of swing. She appears in Troublesome Creek just in the nick of time-helping Mary unearth...

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.

Augusta Goodnight, guardian angel, sometime sleuth, and a boarder at the South Carolina home of Lucy Nan Pilgrim, becomes involved in the case of a mysterious stranger who plunges to his death from the balcony of an abandoned mansion.