Tallulah Jones' ice cream parlor is struggling, and she's stooped to catering a party for her sleezeball ex-husband Wayne and his arm-candy girlfriend Brittany. Things go from ugly to plain old awful when Brittany turns up dead and all eyes turn to Tally as the murderer. First in a new series.

Tallulah Jones, proprietor of Dalliance, Texas's old-fashioned ice-cream parlor, dishes up luscious ice cream that is simply to die for...Unfortunately, Remember the A-la-mode's profits are melting faster than a snow cone in July-and Tally's stuck scooping sundaes for her two-timing ex-husband and his bodacious new girlfriend, Brittanie, at his company luau. To make matters worse, twenty years after she dumped him in the Tasty-Swirl parking lot, Tally's high-school beau, Finn Harper, comes back to town-looking every bit as delicious as a double-dip raspberry-mascarpone waffle cone. The cherry on top? Brittanie drops dead, and Tally's suddenly the prime suspect in her murder investigation. To catch a killer, Tally will have to churn up Dalliance's darkest secrets and dip deep into the past. But can Tally freeze out the real culprit before a murder charge puts her dreams on ice for good?