After her mother dies from a heart attack, Sloane Templeton suddenly goes from working at the Cyber Crimes Unit to becoming a bookstore owner. Sloane also inherits a half-batty store manager; the Granny Oakleys Book Club — neighbors who meet at the store but never actually read books — and Aunt Verline, who fancies herself an Iron Chef (when in reality she needs folks with cast iron stomachs to partake of her culinary disasters …)

She thought this new life was exciting enough, but then Sloane begins to receive cyber threats … and now she needs to use her computer forensic skills to uncover the source and discover in time just who is out to kill her …