A heartwarming cozy mystery series about losing everything, taking a chance, and starting again."--Back cover.

After relocating to a small seaside town in Maine from San Francisco, mystery author Abby Sullivan finds herself managing an inn of sorts while unofficially investigating a local girl's murder.

The only thing left in the inn remodel is to remove items left in the attic by prior residents. When a woman shows up claiming to be related to the the original owner, Abby invites her to dig through the contents of the attic.

A whole new group of guests check into the Inn each with their own reason for being there and their own story to tell. Once of the guests, a single woman named Mylie, finds a long forgotten letter to Santa in the mouth of the life sized nutcracker Lacy purchased for Abby after a visit to an antique store. The list does not ask Santa for toys or games but for time with her parents. The note also lists the activities the child wishes they could do together...

A heartwarming cozy mystery series about losing everything, taking a chance, and starting again. 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...