On a trip home from North Carolina, Delilah Burns Morgan... ...is stopped in her tracks by a deer she whacks into oblivion. Lyle Henderson, the man she loves but put off marrying, comes to her rescue. Life would be a bed of roses if, during a week of recovery at the Henderson family estate, a lascivious conversation hadn't been overheard, the mystery of a dead girl is revealed, and someone using Lyle's cabin in the woods as a rendezvous hadn't altered their plans. Then Delilah's beloved god-daughter and best friend's only child is kidnapped. With Josephine in tow, Delilah sets out to bring Savannah back home. Roping in friends for help, Delilah's neighborhood burgeons with former clandestine government officers setting up an op center and Lyle and her minister disappearing to follow leads. An attempt to fricassee Delilah and a pompous businessman make Delilah and Lyle determined to unearth the villains and find Savannah before it's too late.