The terms of fifty-year-old Lily McVay's divorce settlement are quirky at best: live in her ex-husband's ancestral mausoleum of a house, restore her dead mother-in-law's renowned garden, and
host the small Gulf Coast town's overblown annual soiree. Lily needs help. Aided and abetted by her "I'll help bury the body, no questions asked" friends, Lily sets out to lay old ghosts to
rest and grow a new life.