Sunny McKillip moved to Texas to take a position as a professor's assistant. When the professor is fired, Sunny lands a job as a personal assistant to the local matriarch of Mule Stop's society. Honeybelle Hensley is loved by many, but hated by others. When Honeybelle's daughter-in- law forces her out of the garden club and the university president tries to force her to donate money for a new stadium, she suffers a heart attack.

Her nurse drives her directly to the mortuary and the burial takes place so swiftly, everyone is stunned. When her will is read, leaving everything to her dog, Miss Ruffles, life takes a bizarre turn for Sunny. Sunny and two other employees are promised a million dollars each if they stay and take care of Miss Ruffles for a year.

Sunny feels honor bound to stay since she is convinced there is something suspicious about the speed at which everything happened. Sunny must do what she can to find the killer and then rescue Miss Ruffles after she is kidnapped. Only Honeybelle really liked the dog but the employees will do all they can to fulfill Honey's wishes.

Miss Martin has left the Blackbird Sisters behind with MISS RUFFLES INHERITS EVERYTHING, an entertaining mystery which will keep the reader trying to keep up. There are so many threads in this first novel in the Miss Ruffles series that it is fascinating to watch as Sunny tries to untangle the web of unexpected events. Miss Ruffles will win everyone's heart, and the reader will feel complete sympathy with poor Sunny as she tries to protect Miss Ruffles.