Dalton Chamberlain's worked for Southern widows in the past. They all want the same thing - someone to take care of the grass and keep the leaves raked. But more than anything else, they just want someone to listen. So when he is hired by Mrs. Glenda Daugherty, he realizes he isn't just a gardener for this Southern widow - he's her confidant. But Dalton's more than some college kid who listens to stories of Mrs. Daugherty's past, he's her last chance to find the truth behind the suicide of her son, Charley.

But why would Charley kill himself? He was handsome, suave, and heir to the most powerful company in Birmingham. Maybe Charley's death wasn't suicide...and maybe it had nothing to do with Charley but vengeance for a murder his father committed years before Charley was born. But someone knows what happened to Charley - and wants the truth left in the past.