Eli Pledge has been a dedicated bachelor for well over 40 years now, and it has never seemed a day too long. So when he breaks the habit of a miss-spent lifetime and brings home a fiancée, you can't blame his sister, Nellie, for feeling that there is something fishy about this romance. Any woman who is ready to take Eli for better or worse must have something to hide - and Nellie won't rest till she finds out what that something is.