When Hazel Baker is found floating in Catfish Corner, neighbors in her eastern Kentucky community wonder how the retired nurse ending up drowning in the pay lake. Unwilling to accept Hazel's death as an accident, her sister enlists reporter and crime buff Maggie Morgan to prove Hazel was murdered. As Maggie tries to focus on the case, she's distracted by her well-meaning boyfriend, her ex-fiance the police detective, and a crime that hits close to home."