Ashley is a creative writing graduate student who is one thesis away from graduating. Miles Blake, a celebrity murder mystery writer comes to her university to teach. She gets assigned to be his TA, and they strike up a sort of friendship.

Humor, romance and suspense entwine teenager Charlotte Moon and her crew, as they are pulled into solving a notorious neighbor’s murder out on the greens of their southern, country club neighborhood The Queen’s Crown, a place where rich is relative and the tea is sweet.