Jeannie's story begins in her small Alabama home town one year after a tragic accident claimed her mother's life. While her fiancée accepts a promotion that will move him to a new life in Birmingham, Jeannie postpones their wedding and stays behind to run the family antiques gallery during her father's recuperation in the hospital. Unfortunately it is soon learned that her father, Ben, is not simply suffering from an ailment yet without diagnosis and a complete mystery to his doctors, but rather from the critical reaction to a rare and highly regulated poison. Meanwhile a mystery unfolds when Jeannie soon finds herself involved in an intense investigation that intermingles with mystery, danger and an opening to the possibility for a new romance.