A murdered man is found burned to a crisp in a vacant lot. The only clues to the murderer are a gas can and some fancy pastel matches. Caroline Post and her young helper Tracy have restored a genuine Victorian doll house to help celebrate Norville's Centennial. Now the beautiful doll house is the scene of "murdered" little dolls, and again the charred man doll is accompanied by those same pastel matches. The girl doll is missing. Will she be the next victim, now that Tracy has disappeared too? Caroline, as an outsider, is suspected by the Sheriff and hounded by Deann Young to fill her insatiable need for details of the crimes. Caroline has been a witness to murders before and can't stand the thought of ferocious paparazzi after her once again. She must solve the mysteries, protect Tracy and her new friends, and avoid more dreadful nightmares. She doesn't realize that she too is in danger from the last person she would suspect.