Welcome to Desert Palms, a cozy Arizona tourist town set up against the mountains.
Deanna Devlin is a thirty-two year old reporter who dreams of tackling hard-nosed stories, but is stuck writing puff pieces for the local paper.
When a murder strikes Desert Palms, Deanna suddenly gets her chance to cover some hard-hitting news.
Unfortunately, one of Deanna's good friends is wrongly suspected as the killer by the local police detective. To prove her friend's innocence, Deanna has no choice but to take matters into her own hands and find the real killer herself.