No one in Judge Deborah Knotts family knows the meaning of the inscription on their late mothers cigarette lighter, which young Susan Stephenson acquired near the end of World War II. Whose initials are W.R.M. and why is it engraved with Happy 25th Leslie? Meanwhile, Kezzie Knott has discovered the body of a man who used to make whiskey for him back when he was running white lightning. What was he doing on Kezzies land, and why was he bludgeoned on the head three separate times? While her husband, Sheriffs Deputy Dwight Bryant, investigates, Deborah meets a woman who could help her identify the lighters original owner.,
