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Restaurant owner Halia Watkins finds businessman Marcus Rand dead in the kitchen of Mahalia's Sweet Tea. Hoping to protect her business from unwanted publicity, she investigates with cousin Wavonne as the killing threatens to draw them into suspicion.

Halia Watkins caters her high school reunion, only for former classmate Raynell Rollins to turn up dead the next morning. With cousin Wavonne's help, Halia investigates relationships and rivalries behind the victim's apparently successful life.

A beauty trade show brings new customers to Halia Watkins's restaurant, but prominent entrepreneur Monique Dupree is shot dead. Halia and cousin Wavonne follow rivalries and complicated relationships in the beauty business while trying to uncover the killer.

Halia Watkins joins a cooking competition as a guest judge while it films in Washington, DC. When a leading contestant dies, Halia and cousin Wavonne investigate professional grudges and personal secrets that could implicate more than the obvious suspect.