When sixty-eight year old Sarah Miller moves into the Cunningham Village retirement community, she is mourning the loss of her husband, her young grandson, and the place that has been home for forty-two years. But Sarah is a survivor. As she reaches out into the retirement community that is to become her home, she find friends, activities, new hobbies, a possible love interest, and of course, crimes to solve and murderers to track down.

The seventh instalment of this fun, friendly series of cozy mysteries centres on Sarah's friend Sophie, as she encounters several major life changes, including two new family members and a job working with abandoned animals.