Sometimes what you know really is as powerful as who you know. After an unpleasant divorce from her Dallas physician husband, socialite Mary Alice Tate returns home to Cana, Mississippi, where her family has reigned as the first family for generations. She immerses herself in volunteer work with the clients at the Women's Center, especially Sheree Delio, a white-trash, ex-stripper drug addict. When Sheree is arrested for killing a police detective, her first call is to Mary Alice. Mary Alice turns into an amateur sleuth and discovers that Sheree had motive, means, and opportunity for killing the cop, but she believes Sheree is being framed. To save Sheree's life, Mary Alice uses her sultry Southern charm and social status, but will it be enough to keep her from becoming the killer's next victim?