In the quaint river town of Geneva, IL, Kelly Clark flees California and returns to her hometown to restart her life after a horrific divorce from an abusive husband. She accepts her sister's generous offer to live in the apartment above Chocolate Love, her sister's specialty dessert shop, in the Historic District of Geneva. Kelly's life starts to turn around when she reconnects with an old flame. Just when it looks like she is getting her life back on track, she stumbles over a dead body in the kitchen of Chocolate Love. The suspicious death of a Chocolate Love employee sends her hopes for a better future plummeting. Has her violent past and the danger she faced in California followed her home to Geneva?