North Brooktown is your stereotypically quaint New England village fully equipped - as if ordered from a catalog of all things New England - with lavish fall color and hard-working residents minding the details of their tidy lives. Newcomer Ella Sinclair finds that just beneath the picturesque facade, the town, like all towns, has secrets. But, in stark contrast to the color of the countryside, North Brooktown's secrets are dark. As Ella settles into her new surroundings after the painful West Coast breakup with her longtime lover, the town's secrets begin to unravel after a young girl is found brutally murdered. It is the second tragic death within a year for North Brooktown and Ella joins forces to solve the murder with a man desperate to win her affection. Forks in the Flowerpots opens the door to Ella's journey while she races to prevent another tragedy from befalling North Brooktown.