Morningstar is about a self-centered "queen-bee" who, due to her family's financial setbacks moves from an upper middle-class lifestyle in San Francisco to what she initially considers an impoverished backwards life in Logan Utah. Just before her departure from San Francisco, she is filled with many of the stereotypical prejudices about almost any rural American town and a few peculiar to Utah. The move thrusts her into two murder mysteries, including a person she feels inexplicably close to, and her own journey of guilt, growth, discovery, true friendship and the almost impossible decision of staying with her family and friends or being with the young man she has searched for, dreamt about, and fallen in love with.