Harper Reed and her sister Lonnie are joyously helping their good friend Maggie get ready for her upcoming wedding to her long time beau Fred. A romantic outdoor wedding with all the trimmings is planned to occur on Maggie's farm--that is, until a few of her farmhands drive up breathless with the news that local auctioneer Stan Mumford has been found stabbed to death on the banks of the Big Bittersweet River which runs right through Maggie's property...