Miss Moses LoBeau considers herself three times lucky, once `when she floated downstream to safety during an ugly hurricane, two when the Colonel stumbled to the creek in time to snatch her from the flood, and three when Miss Lana took her in as her own. But Mo feels her luck may have changed when Detective Starr shows up suggesting someone in Tupelo Landing is a murderer, and his prime suspect is her best friend Dale Earnhardt Johnson III. Mo knows it is time to take up detective work and solve a mystery that may include discovering some of the secrets of her past.