Everything in Aurora Teagarden's life finally seems to be going her way. She's newly and quite happily married to Martin Bartell, happy to be back at her part-time job at the library, and settled into her dream home. But when mild-mannered Darius Quattermain goes crazy in her back yard when he should be stacking firewood, things start to go downhill. Next Martin's flighty niece arrives unannounced, with a baby no one knew she was expecting. Then she disappears, leaving behind the baby -- and her husband, whose corpse is discovered on the steps outside their home.