When a top-ranked competitor keels over at a dog obedience trial, photographer Janet Macphail is swept up in a maelstorm of suspicion, jealousy, cut-throat competition, death threats, pet-napping, and murder. She becomes a 'person of interest' to the police, and apparently to major hunk Tom Saunders as well. As if murder and the threat of impending romance aren't enough to drive her bonkers, Janet has to move her mother into a nursing home, and the old lady isn't going quietly. Janet finds solace in her Australian Shepherd, Jay, her tabby cat, Leo, and her eccentric neighbor, Goldie Sunshine. Then two other 'persons of interest' die, Jay's life is threatened, Leo disappears, and Janet's search for the truth threatens to leave her own life underdeveloped, for good.