When a body washes up on shore after a band of pirates begins terrorizing Lake Michigan, chocolate shop owner Lee McKinney Woodyard must figure out the truth behind the Warner Pier Pirates before someone else turns up dead.

When someone murders party planner Julie Singletree and absconds with her computer that contains an e-mail list of professionals in the party food business, more attacks occur, and chocolate shop manager Lee McKinney, fearing that she will be the next one deleted off the list, sets a trap to catch the killer.