Fall in Cedar Valley is hand letterer Jamie Lang's favorite time of year—the fall farmers' market, the glass pumpkin show, and the annual Zombie 5K Fun Run, zombie costume contest, and zombie dummy competition. This year Jamie and her friends are determined to win the competition for best zombie dummy. Their stuffed zombie bride looks like she has a good shot at winning, too. Until someone swaps the dummy for a real dead body. Jamie would rather leave solving the murder to her handsome friend and chief of police, Ridge Calhoun. But Ridge is short staffed and people are soon telling her gossip and secrets they would never share with Ridge. Each sordid new revelation points to a different suspect. Now it's up to Jamie to untangle this web of deceit before Cedar Valley's trio of zombie events are DOA.