Kate Kingsbury

Melanie West is getting her life back on track after a messy divorce when her grandmother, Liza Harris, asks her to open a B & B with her. Together, Liza and Melanie purchase a purportedly haunted mansion on the Oregon coast and jump right into clearing out the cobwebs. But while attempting to remove wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, the new B & B owners stumble upon a very real skeleton in their closet. The police suspect the skeleton is that of...

Cecily and her friend Madeline halt their Christmas preparations at the Pennyfoot Hotel when the head maid becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her ex-husband, whose body was discovered in the hotel's duck pond.

After a footman and a new maid are seen kissing under the bough and then turn up dead afterwards, the downstairs staff at the Pennyfoot Hotel is convinced a serial killer is among them ... perhaps the mysterious guest known only as J. Mortimer. It's up to Cecily Sinclair Baxter and her staff to discover the murderer.

Everyone wants a piece of millionaire Bennett Marshfield, owner of Marshfield Manor, but now it's up to new curator Grace Wheaton and handsome groundskeeper Jack Embers to protect dear old Marshfield. But to do this, they'll have to investigate a botched Ponzi scheme, some torrid Wheaton family secrets-and sour grapes out for revenge.

Civil war reenactors have set up camp on the grounds of Marshfield Manor. The group is very believable, especially when the unrest spills out of the barracks and inside the sumptuous mansion. Grace Wheaton, the curator and manager of the manor, manages to settle a minor squabble, but loses the war when actor Zachary Kincade is found stabbed to death.Jack Embers, the groundskeeper, falls under suspicion when he's linked to the death of Zachary's brother...