When Bette Whaley stumbles on the body of an old family rival, she knows she’s in a pot of boiling water. It doesn’t help that she threatened the man in front of everyone in the small town of Chesapeake Cove. So when he’s found dead near the historic beach house Bette inherited from her grandmother, Bette’s the main suspect. Bette’s one crab short in her alibi bucket, and even her childhood friend—Detective Marcus Seabolt—seems skeptical. But Bette isn’t the only one in Chesapeake Cove that had a problem with the cantankerous crab fisherman. To clear her name, Bette’s going to need all the help she can get. With her son’s moody cat and her determined aunt Priscilla on her side, she’s prepared to set any trap to catch the real murderer. Bette needs to prove her innocence to Chesapeake Cove because she’s got nowhere else to go and her ex-husband is looking for any reason to get his claws on her inheritance.