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Sydney Whitmore, a forensic psychologist living in San Francisco, moves home to Shipwreck Island, and the resort owned and operated by her family, after tragedy strikes leaving her struggling for a way to make sense of things. After finding out about the assault of an old friend, which has left him comatose, she renews her relationship with Ezra Reinhold, a reclusive billionaire who enjoys poking around in cold cases and has the means to hire the best people to find the answers no one else has been able to.

Five weeks, four friends, three novels, two romances, and one cold-case mystery combine to bring you the first in a series of three-part reunion stories by USA Today best-selling author Kathi Daley.

My name is Lou Prescott. I was born in South Carolina but spent most of my life in Northern Minnesota. Since the death of my husband, I've found myself at loose ends, so when my niece offered to sell me the quaint seaside bookstore she owned in Holiday Bay, Maine, I jumped at the opportunity to restart my life somewhere new. My journey to date has been a bit rocky but my rescue cat Toby and I are making it work.

Summer in Gooseberry Bay means sun, sand, and the much-anticipated Movies on the Beach event. Ainsley and her close-knit crew are all in—Josie and Hudson are serving up treats from the food truck, Jemma is wrangling volunteers, and Ainsley and Coop are on security duty. But when a local man turns up dead—murdered in the exact same way as the victim in that week’s film—things take a chilling turn.

A Halloween tradition, a ghost with amnesia, and a friend in crisis, collide in this haunting small town paranormal mystery set on the picturesque Oregon Coast. Amanda and the gang stumble upon a ghost who can't seem to remember who she was in life or where she left her body. Unable to move on until these critical questions are answered, the gang slide into sleuth mode to help the confused specter. When a second girl turns up dead and a third goes missing, Amanda realizes the stakes are much higher than she first thought.

Amanda Parker has returned to the small seaside town where she lived for two years while in witness protection. Now that she has settled in and solved the murder she returned home to solve, she has decided to stay in Cutter's Cove for an extended vacation. Of course it isn't long before she stumbles across a surprising secret that will require the help of the entire gang to solve.

In book 10 in the series, Sydney is busily packing for a romantic getaway with her boyfriend, Doctor Logan Alexander, when Colin Black, her boss at the FBI, calls to ask her for a time sensitive favor. It seems that Enzo Masterson, aka The Joker, has died, and upon his death he has bequeathed to his four poker buddies from the Sunny Meadows Senior Living Home clues that, Colin believes, will lead them to stolen treasure worth tens of millions of dollars.

Zoe tries to juggle sleuthing with family obligations as Alex and Scooter prepare to graduate high school, and Zoe fears that things will never be the same.

Zoe struggles with a secret as the Zimmerman clan sets out for a week of fun in the sun at Camp Carter, where they find the cook dead in the pantry on the very first day of their family vacation.

It's Halloween in Ashton Falls and that means Haunted Hamlet and the annual haunted house. Zoe is determined not to have her plans for this annual event ruined this year especially since it is also the weekend of the big game and a lot of old friends are in town.

A reindeer invasion, a baby on the way, a small town decked out for the holidays, and a killer on the loose all come together in this fun and heartwarming Christmas cozy mystery.

As is his tradition, Zak has gone Halloween crazy, while Zoe is trying to overcome the baby-bump blues and harness some enthusiasm for the annual Haunted Hamlet. Things seem to be on track for a spooktacular good time until Zoe stumbles onto the body of a longtime friend in the alley behind Rosie's just days before the big event. The death of this popular community member leads to an investigation that reveals a shocking history that Zoe and the gang never suspected and can't quite explain.

When Zoe finds a body laying across the grave of Isaac Wainwright, the man behind a hundred-year-old legend, she sets out to find the killer before the deputy who is substituting for Salinger, finds a way to pin the murder on her. Meanwhile, Ellie is asked to babysit her cousin's baby, Levi is AWOL, and the entire Donovan-Zimmerman household is busy with Halloween activities.

In the first ever crossover episode, Zak and Zoe join forces with Hawaiian visitors Luke and Lani, to find out who killed a historian visiting Ashton Falls in order to find a treasure map left by his grandfather a hundred years earlier.

In this snowy cozy mystery, Zak's is asked to track down the source of the breech for the surveillance system at a remote ski resort in the Canadian Rockies. Scooter is away with his dad leaving Zoe feeling depressed and deflated so Zak asks Zoe to go along on the trip. With Levi and Ellie away as well, Zoe decides to join Zak only to find that the sleuthing couple has really been invited to the resort to solve a murder.

You will be drawn into this small town Christmas mystery when Levi finds the body of bakeshop owner Candy Kane dead in the pantry. Meanwhile things go from crazy to insane when Scooter's dad comes to town, Zoe tries to find the perfect gift for Zak, and everyone is pulled into the fun and magic of Hometown Christmas.

USA Today best-selling author Kathi Daley brings you a heartwarming mystery series about finding answers and fostering hope while building friendships and embracing the magic of life by the sea and small town holidays.

It's Halloween in Ashton Falls and that means Haunted Hamlet and the annual haunted house. Zoe is determined not to have her plans for this annual event ruined this year especially since it is also the weekend of the big game and a lot of old friends are in town.

Zak's honorary grandmother Nona decides to come to Ashton Falls for the summer. After arriving she meets and befriends an animal activist set on shutting down a kitten mill just outside of town. When the kitten mill owner is found dead on her barn floor, Nona becomes the prime suspect and Zoe sets out to prove her innocence.

After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos.