"The folks of River Bend have become like family. I love following their adventures from book to book. Renee Kumar has found a winning recipe for an ongoing romance series that is peppered with mystery and murder." - Marcy Birdweather, Marcy's Musings It's the beginning of a new year. Lynn Powers is still recovering from witnessing her friend Susan Carmichael die in an explosion. Polly, Susan's teenage daughter, has agreed to stay in River Bend for the rest of her freshman year of high school. She is having some difficult periods of adjustment. As Lynn and her friends cope with Polly, Yolanda Valeri receives a bequest from an elderly admirer. She is given a half-a-million dollars to distribute to local nonprofits as she sees fit. However, Lynn and her friends are drawn into a mystery as a nonprofit tries to intimidate Yolanda into granting it all her money.