Abby MacMillan's anxiety is already sky-high, with her best friend's serious illness, a lifelong fear of horses, a looming PhD deadline and three recent murders in her small Minnesota college town. Things couldn't possibly get more stressful when another murder happens during the annual alumni reunion. Abby must find the killer while maintaining her sanity.

Susan Dean grew up in the southern United States and moved to Minnesota to attend college. Like Abby MacMillan, she loved the state and its people so much she made it her home, eventually marrying her own Minnesota-born man.