A dead body shattered the calm of the arboretum.

Another murder in small town Cold Creek has tensions rising. Clive Johnson, the groundskeeper at Cold Creek College, is a convenient scapegoat for a police chief when he has the bad luck of finding the body. Although Clive helps the students on scholarship and claims innocence, he's not helping himself. Convinced Chief Barney Pfeiffe has it all wrong, Sheridan Hendley sets out to help prove Clive's innocence. Her curiosity and questions place her in danger.

It's soon obvious not everyone is pleased by her enthusiastic search for the truth. More troubling, it's not clear who she can trust besides her best friend, Kim, and Detective Brett McMann. As problems escalate, Brett decides it's time for self-defense training for the women at the college, especially Sheridan. This is the second of the Cold Creek Cozy mysteries. Join Sheridan and her friends as they reveal the killer and prove Clive's innocence.