The first in a series on the lives, loves, mysteries and mishaps of three generations of southern women. Coco Strong, dog sitter and member of the eccentric Layton clan, has just fallen for an Italian waiter who is doing an excellent job of ignoring her. Her widowed mother Katie finds herself, unintentionally, dating the bank president. And her grandmother is mailing mysterious packages while complaining of imaginary burglars. But are they imaginary? And what is the deep family secret that only Grammy knows?