Haunted Everly After

Everly doesn't want to talk to restless spirits, and she definitely didn't sign up to help murdered ghosts resolve their unfinished business. All she does want is to forget about her rotten, cheating ex-husband and return to a quiet life in her quaint, cozy hometown. But when she stumbles across her high school boyfriend's murdered body-and his ghost-Everly's fresh start begins to look more like paranormal purgatory. Hudson Montayne is dead, pushy, and somehow even more annoying than he was at seventeen. And he refuses to rest until Everly pieces together the clues and finds his killer. Only Hudson's murder is just the beginning. Small-town secrets rarely stay hidden, and the more Everly uncovers, the clearer it becomes-someone will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden. And in Mooselick River, everyone's watching.

Everly Dupree has handled her fair share of ghostly encounters, but this one takes the dog biscuit. She had no intention of getting involved in Mooselick River's annual town-wide yard sale, but saying no to Martha Tipton is like trying to wrestle a cat into a bathtub. One minute, Everly's sorting through attic junk and dodging cutthroat bargain hunters-the next, an oversized chocolate lab comes barreling toward her at full speed. And drags her straight to a body. Buried under a mountain of shredded paperwork at the recycling center, Everly's overbearing, micromanaging boss, Spencer Charles, is very dead. Unfortunately for her, his ghost shows up before the cops do. Spencer is just as nitpicky and demanding in death as he was in life and seems to think Everly is his own personal psychic detective. He's convinced he was murdered and-you guessed it-won't stop haunting her until she proves it. In a town where everyone talks, only one witness can sniff out the truth… and she has four paws.

Christmas in Mooselick River is all tinsel, twinkle lights…and murder. After the year she's had, Everly Dupree is ready for the holiday season-baking cookies, trimming the tree, guzzling eggnog, and indulging in one of her favorite traditions: the town's annual Christmas lighting contest. But murder never takes a holiday, and in Mooselick River, even Christmas comes with a body count. As displays are sabotaged, old grudges resurface, and bitter rivalries boil over, it's starting to look like the lighting contest is about more than just dazzling decorations. Then tenacious journalist Amber Hale turns up strangled with a string of Christmas lights, her corpse staged like a macabre holiday display-and her ghost becomes Everly's newest problem. The more she learns, the clearer it seems that Amber wasn't just chasing a headline. She was running from something-and if Everly isn't careful, she'll become the next holiday tragedy Mooselick River has to sweep under the snow.

One man's treasure is another ghost's unfinished business. When local fortune hunter Delly Harper takes a fatal nosedive off a cliff, everyone in Mooselick River calls it an accident. Everyone except Delly-who's now haunting Everly Dupree with a list of suspicions and one very big request. Turns out Delly named Everly's dad executor of his estate: a crumbling farmhouse, a chunk of overgrown land, and a rumor about buried gold that's been circling town for decades. While her dad dives headfirst into treasure-hunting mode, Everly's stuck trying to figure out who wanted Delly dead-and why. Then another body turns up, and this one is definitely no accident. As Everly follows a trail of secrets through old rivalries, family feuds, and long-forgotten scandals, she starts to realize this isn't just about gold-it's about payback. And someone in town will do anything to keep the past buried. Good thing Everly has a shovel.