After a devastating storm ravages Sweet Briar, the folks in town are busy cleaning up the damage. Tori Sinclair, the Yankee librarian, has her hands full at the library, but when she hears that fellow Sewing Circle member Rose's house was heavily hit, she and the other ladies offer to help out. But Rose assures them that her former student, Kenny Murdock, will be doing her repairs as soon as he finishes up next door at Martha Jane Barker's house....

The rules of South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle are hard and fast, and the new Yankee librarian, Tori Sinclair, has a lot of catching up to do. She'll also need a Northern-to-Southern dictionary -- and a way to clear her name of murder! Ever since she moved to Sweet Briar, South Carolina, librarian Tori Sinclair has been the talk of the tiny town. But she's been so busy at work, winning over the sewing circle, and trying to...

First Tori Sinclair's predecessor -- who wasn't keen on retiring in the first place -- indicates that she's going to make some wonderful changes when she substitutes at the library so Tori can help a friend in the hospital. Then Tori nearly flatlines herself when she watches a woman go into cardiac arrest at the hospital. The woman is Vera, her philandering ex-fiancé, Jeff's, great-aunt. Tori does what she must: she calls Jeff to let him know about...

When a cantankerous Sweet Briar resident ends up six feet under, the ladies of the sewing circle have to deal with a town full of suspects . . . With the library's budget dwindling, Tori Sinclair is forced to let go of her predecessor, and fellow sewing circle member, Dixie Dunn. After losing her job a second time, Dixie decides to volunteer for Home Fare, delivering meals to the homebound. Less than a week after Dixie starts, her client Clyde Montgomery...