Tallulah MacBride hasn't been back to North Carolina since her parents' tragic deaths twenty years ago. Now Tal heads to cousin Delta Whittlespoon's famous Crossroads Cafe in the mountains above Asheville, hoping to find a safe hiding place for her young daughter. What she finds is Cousin Delta gone, the cafe in a biscuit crisis, and a Scotsman who believes she needs a knight in shining flannel. And then a pair of sinister private eyes shows up.