After the sudden death of her husband, Minda Hobbs returns to Angel Heights, S.C., the home of her forebears, to seek peace and purpose in her life. Instead, she finds her n'er-do-well cousin Otto as cold and stiff as yesterday's grits in the ladies' room at the historic Minerva Academy. Shocked by her cousin's murder and still grieving over the loss of her husband, Minda has mixed emotions when she's greeted by her guardian angel, Augusta Goodnight....

Prentice Dobson has just lost her job, her boyfriend, almost everything that has until now made her feel complete. To collect her thoughts and mourn her younger sister's recent passing, Prentice leaves the city for her small hometown in Georgia. But there is no comfort to be found in the beloved town of her youth-the town is aquiver with the news that her Uncle Faris' grave has been dug up, perhaps by vandals. And Prentice begins to doubt the simple...

When Kate McBride finds the family housekeeper badly injured at the bottom of a ravine at Bramblewoods, her uncle's woodsy estate, the woman claims she was pushed. Could this have something to do with Bramblewood's mysterious past? Murder and intrigue are served up with the scones and tea as Augusta, with a bumbling young apprentice in tow, steps in with heavenly assistance in this fourth book in the series.