SMALL TOWN. BIG BOOM.

Davis Way Cole returns to her hometown of Pine Apple, Alabama, to fill in for her police chief father during the bustling Memorial Day Celebration. It'll be fun.

Relaxing. And a no-brainer.

After years of leading an elite security team at a billion-dollar casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, Davis has no doubt whatsoever she can run little ole Pine Apple in her sleep. She should think again.

A blast from her past shows up. (With baggage.

) Just before her casino-spy partner from Biloxi blows into town. (As a fugitive.

) Then something goes wrong with the weed-control crew. (Terribly wrong.

) And that was just Davis's first day on the job. Her missteps that follow threaten to blow her life to smithereens.

They include pilfering a botanical garden from her Biloxi employer, hiding out in a closed diner with a surprise in the freezer, and choosing a questionable-at-best team to aid and assist when a fireworks problem pops up. But all that pales next to Davis reopening Pine Apple's oldest and deepest wound.

Because, as she soon learns, some small-town secrets are best left buried. What will she do?Everything she possibly can.

(And then some. ).