Thirty-something crafter extraordinaire Sophie Mae Reynolds makes preserves by day and answers a crisis center help referral line by night. What better way to help people while still keeping a low profile? But on her very first night, she gets a call from a man who is threating suicide... and her. Angrily deeming the caller a crank, her boss, Philip Heaven, disconnects the line. Days later Philip dies from a nasty case of botulism. Now, as a stalker singles out Sophie Mae, Philip's eerie last words keep coming back to haunt her: "Threat. Meant it." Stirring up the town with the talk of murder by preserves, can Sopih Mae and her handsome boyfriend Detective Barr Ambrose spoil a mad murderer's poisonous words?