Life in idyllic Button Hollow, New Hampshire begins to unravel for Sheriff Jeff Ramsey as a series of suspicious suicides collides with the overly zealous elderly residents of the volunteer Citizens' Brigade. As Jeff tries to prove the deaths were murders and protect the Citizens' Brigade from themselves, his wife Sharon receives a tempting offer to leave their beloved life behind. Jeff's investigation leads him to discover that the beautiful fall foliage cannot hide the corruption that lies close to home. But protecting the citizens of Button Hollow proves easier to accomplish than protecting his own marriage and home life.