Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson gets plenty of entertainment from her extraordinary cats, Owen and Hercules. With her sort-of boyfriend Marcus calling it quits and her ex-boyfriend Andrew showing up out of the blue, Kathleen has more than enough drama to deal with, and that's before a local theatre festival relocates to Mayville Heights. Now the town is buzzing with theatre folk and many of them have their own private dramas with the director. When he is found shot to death by the marina, he leaves behind evidence of fraud and blackmail and a lot of people with a grudge.