In this sequel to The Back Wing, Harold McCaffrey realizes that it is his three month anniversary at Mountain Splendor Retirement Home. Harold helps at an open house by taking names for a waiting list of people wanting to move into the Front Wing of the facility. Afterwards, there is commotion and a dead body is found in the lobby. With the help of his witchy girlfriend, Bella Alred, and some other unusual residents, Harold must solve the mystery of why the people on Mountain Splendor's waiting list are turning up dead.