When Janice Eastman wakes from a nap to find her five-year-old grandson has gone missing, she must confront crippling fears as her search takes her into the darkest recesses of Wayfarers Inn. There, she makes a startling discovery: skeletal human remains lie alongside an antique photo of a woman holding a child. The discovery of the bones pulls her, Tess, and LuAnn into a mystery that they must quickly solve before archaeological and general curiosity...

The Inn Crowd is plunged into another mystery when their contractor stumbles across a trunk containing an old, tattered quilt in one of the secret rooms that housed runaway slaves. Just moments earlier, they had learned that the famous River of Life quilt was stolen from the National Archives. Could this be the missing quilt? And how did it come to be at Wayfarers Inn? As Tess, Janice, and LuAnn set out to uncover the truth, they are shocked to...

On the Fourth of July, Tess and her friends find a myserious brooch at the Wayfarers Inn. When Tess takes it to a jeweler for appraisal, it is stolen before he can find a clue about its origins. As the Inn crowd digs into the mystery, they learn that among their current guests are the descendants of a man suspected, one hundred and fifty years ago, of stealing this same brooch.

A plumber digs up an old box on the grounds of the Wayfarers Inn. In the box are a dress, a bracelet, an old piece of newsprint, an unmailed letter, and a knife stained with blood. As the Inn Crowd investigates the find, the friends uncover a forgotten chapter in the history of the area and learn more about the place they now call home. Meanwhile, Janice struggles to accept her daughter's new boyfriend.

Janice is thrilled when she hears that her childhood friend is coming to Marietta for a surveyors conference. Her excitement turns to intrigue when she learns that he is in possession of an antique compass reported to have belonged to George Washington. But when Anthony arrives with plans to present the compass to the historical society, another conference attendee accuses him of stealing it from her father over forty years earlier. Then the stakes...

Moses Willard, the great-great grandson of original owners of the house now turned into Wayfarers Inn, has come with his family to visit the inn. However, Moses has been receiving anonymous notes suggesting that someone is holding the Willard family treasure for ransom. At the same time, inn co-owner Tess has had a failing out with her grown daughter Lizzie and it's up to her friends, LuAnn and Janice, to help patch things up between the two.