After a difficult divorce, Lexie Lightfoot moves home to Moose Creek Junction, Wyoming, to start a new life with her daughter, Eva, and opens the Saucy Lucy Cafe with her sister, Lucy. Lucy, a staunch, churchgoing woman, believes her sister must remarry in order to enter the kingdom of heaven, but Lucy isn't having much luck in that department. Eventually Lexie decides to live her life without a man and without her sister's interference. Too bad she can't decide to keep her nose out of police business, too.

When a friend goes missing and Lexie and Lucy find her buried in their garden, Lexie is devastated, and Moose Creek Junction's inept sheriff, Lucy's husband, Otis Parnell, is no help. With the handsome--and single-- Gabe Stevenson on vacation, the Westonville police are having a hard time finding the murderer.

Impatient, Lexie decides to lend a hand. With Lucy's assistance, they begin their investigation. But when things really start to cook, the sisters find themselves in a heap of hot water!