Spunky spirit Bailey Ruth is dispatched to Adelaide, Oklahoma, to help single mother and struggling writer Deidre Davenport. Deidre desperately needs a faculty job, but Professor Jay Knox is more interested in her body than her body of work. Soon after she rejects his advances, Knox turns up dead - with Deirdre's fingerprints on the murder weapon. Bailey Ruth knows Deirdre is innocent. Now she must find out who really knocked off Knox... if Deirdre and her family are ever going to have a happy ending.