Is the depot a symbol of the worst episode in a town’s history or does it stand for revitalization, bringing the citizens of Wheeler together with pride in their community?
Kate Chamber’s trouble antenna go up when Dallas developer Silas Fletcher decides to help “grow” Wheeler. She and her brother-in-law, Mayor Tom Bryson, have less spectacular and drastic ideas for revitalizing the town. When Old Man Jackson dies in an automobile accident, the specter of the past comes back to haunt the town. Thirty years ago, Jackson’s daughter, Sallie, was murdered at the bus depot . The murder is still unsolved.
Kate and Silas clash over almost everything, from the future use of the abandoned depot to a fall festival celebrating Wheeler.
Another murder at the depot blows the town apart, and Kate know she must do something to solve the murders and save her town, let alone the festival she’s planning.
When a developer arrives in town he divides opinions, some like his ideas others, including Kate Chambers, are scared he will turn Wheeler into a cookie cutter town by getting rid of the local businesses and bringing in chain stores. What is worse is his ideas for the bus depot, he seems to want to turn it into a side show as there is still an unsolved murder attached to it - he also seems to be egging on the surviving family members (and Kate is worried he is trying to set up some sort of television "cold case" programme), then the father of Sallie (the murdered woman) dies in a car accident, then someone else is killed at the depot and before long tongues start wagging again. Was the original killer her husband, a lover or someone else? Now Kate, along with her boyfriend David and her brother in law Tom has to get to the bottom of the new killing as well as solving the old one, if they want Wheeler to survive!