Sophie Parker's life is looking up. She's getting along with her curmudgeonly great-aunt, dating a hot airplane repo man, and working part-time at the library telling fairy tales. Sophie's new normal is cut to bits when she arrives at her coupon mentor's home to learn about using phone apps for shopping savings and finds her stabbed in the neck with her coupon sheers. When her mentor's coupons are found in Sophie's nemesis, Vivie Danner's car, the case seems solved, although Sophie finds it hard to belie Vivie would murder in such a messy fashion.

Reluctantly recruited by Vivie, Sophie set out to find out who wanted the coupon queen dead. As Sophie uncovers secrets about the victim and other residents of the town, someone is lurking close by, ready to cut her life short.