Honeypie Sweetwater's life is a recipe for disaster-her culinary career in San Francisco is burnt to a crisp, her sterling reputation tossed out like last week's leftovers, and now her home is slipping through her fingers like fine sand. Just as she's about to surrender to fate, a ghost from the past delivers a bombshell-her beloved grandmother didn't die; she was murdered. Clutching the deed to a quaint diner on the rugged coast, Honeypie whisks back to the salty sea air of her youth to unravel a mystery that's been marinating for years. In a town bubbling with secrets, every friend could be a suspect, and every enemy, a clue. As the plot thickens and an enigmatic blast from the past steps out of the shadows, Honeypie must face a bitter truth: the most dangerous ingredients in this simmering scandal are her own buried secrets.