Tired of funeral reporting, Vicky Hill stumbles upon the story of a lifetime involving three grisly chicken corpses and the strange death of a hedge-jumping enthusiast, making her vindictive rival at the paper very jealous.

To help boost ratings for her cable cooking show, humble host Della Carmichael reluctantly agrees to enter a televised cake competition sponsored by Reggi-Mixx - even though the company's owner, Regina Davis, is an old college nemesis. When Della hears that competitive pastry making is a blood sport, she doesn't take it literally - until she finds someone drowned in a mixing bowl full of cake batter. When her dear friend's husband becomes the prime...

"Helen is a recovering alcoholic struggling through a twelve-step program. Now it's time to make amends for a crime she got away with-a hit and run accident that killed the wife of school teacher Edgar Woolrich. It's time to face the consequences. When she finally gathers the courage to meet him, the ninth step begins with a lie-the first of many as their relationship grows, and Helen knows it's far too late to reveal the truth to a man she's come...