Melanie West and her grandmother Liza buy a purportedly haunted mansion with plans to turn it into a Bed and Breakfast, but they find a very real skeleton in their closet. In addition to dealing with the police, their own amateur investigation, the closed-mouthed town, their renovation, and a friendly ghost playing tricks, they find a new body that looks chillingly similar to Melanie herself. It's up to Melanie and Liza to get to the bottom of these...

"It's Christmastime in Marietta, and at Wayfarers Inn the season is in full swing. When the final touches of LuAnn Sherrill's decorations blow a fuse, she and Realtor Brad Grimes look for a way not to overload the circuits -- or sacrifice any of her hard work. But after an antique mirror crashed to the floor in one of the guest rooms, their mission is temporarily forgotten as they try to figure out what caused it to fall. As more mysterious mishaps...

When the president of a reclusive writer's fan club is found dead after a book signing, Charlotte Reed, the owner of Chapters B&B, her neighbor Ellen and Ellen's trusty Yorkshire terrier must page through the clues to catch a killer before the author meets the same fate.

Ellie has arrived with her cousin Marsha at the Wayfarer's Inn. During their stay, Thorn proposes to to his ex-wife, Beverly, prompting Ellie to offer to plan their wedding, though LuAnn ends up shouldering most of the burden. Ellie and Marsha bicker constantly, until Marsha vanishes, leaving the ladies of the inn to find her and the secret behind the cousins' bizarre behavior.

LuAnn Sherrill has just started as chair of the Marietta Christmas-in-History tour but is already overwhelmed by the demands of Fern McPherson. Things are further complicated when one of LuAnn's former students comes to town to visit her sister Michele, who is immediately carried off to the hospital unconscious. LuAnn and her friends at the Wayfarers Inn must make sense of the cryptic notes in Michele's notebook and solve a possible crime before Christmas....

When a tour group checks into the Wayfarers Inn, LuAnn feels she has met one of them before. He seems to recognize her too, but denies knowing her. Meanwhile, LuAnn has finally decided to go through her deceased mother's things and there she finds some surprising clues to who the mystery guest might be.

"The 30th book in Mary Daheim's beloved Bed-and-Breakfast series, which continues to delight her devoted fans"--

Janice's son is about to propose to his girlfriend, Zelda. Before he can pop the question, Zelda is accused of stealing money meant for Marietta's annual Thanksgiving Feast. Janice and her friends from the Wayfarers Inn must clear Zelda's name.

LuAnn is trying to plan a simple wedding, but everything seems to go wrong, at the same time, her finacé's elderly cousin, Irene, insists on LuAnn helping her ready her house for sale. When fiancé Brad cannot find the deed to the mansion, LuAnn begins to suspect a plot to keep Irene from seller the house.

The FBI has come to the Wayfarers Inn, suspecting it to be the source of illegal drugs being sent to a local prison. At the same time, Janice Eastman has just recieved a cancer diagnosis and her friends at the Inn are doing their best to keep her spirits up.