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.

Everly Dupree's ex is a criminal, and now the FBI thinks she's his partner. Which is just the cherry on top of a week that already includes ghost drama, nosy neighbors, and a suspicious white van parked across the street. She might not have wanted to help murdered ghosts with their unfinished business, but Everly used to think she was at least good at it. Until Amber Hale-the spunky, throttled-to-death reporter who decided it would be more fun to stick around and haunt Everly for the rest of her life. (Which, at this rate, may not be much longer.) Then Everly's ex-husband, Paul, mysteriously vanishes amid (totally true) allegations of fraud, and the FBI starts asking very pointed questions-all aimed at Everly. Suddenly she's got agents watching her every move, neighbors placing bets on her arrest, and no choice but to dust off her amateur sleuth hat (again) to investigate the very people she's been trying so hard to forget. To survive the fallout, Everly will have to admit that Amber is as helpful as she is annoying, and accept her ghostly assistance if she wants to make it out of this one without becoming the next headline. Or worse-the next ghost.

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.

Everly Dupree expected cake and canapés. What she got was murder. Being Maid of Honor for her friend Patrea's wedding means Everly has a full plate-dress fittings, menu tastings, and one very controlling mother-of-the-bride who's determined to micromanage her way to the altar. But things take a deadly turn when Everly and Patrea show up to the caterer's tasting party and find the chef face-down in a bowl of frosting. The cause of death? Poison. One murder might be coincidence, but when another one of the caterer's clients turns up dead the very next day, Patrea's wedding is hanging by a thread. Everyone's hoping it's a coincidence. Everly's gut says otherwise-and she's not the only one. Sheriff Ernie Polk needs proof to move forward, and while he's not exactly asking Everly to investigate, he's not telling her to stay out of it either. But he caterer's ghost isn't being helpful, the guest list is thinning, and Everly's starting to think the big day might end with a body count instead of a bouquet toss. She'll have to untangle this knot of secrets fast-before someone decides the Maid of Honor should be next. Because in Mooselick River, even a wedding can be a killer event.

Sometimes it's not even your own ghosts that come back to haunt you. Just when Everly Dupree thinks she's put all her spectral problems to rest, her mother becomes the prime suspect in a psychic's murder. When elderly resident Baxter Thomas vanishes from Mooselick River's assisted living facility, renowned psychic Davina Benet swoops into town offering her expertise. As a specialist in finding missing persons, Davina promises quick results-until she turns up dead before her search can begin. The main suspect? Kitty Dupree, Everly's mother, who made no secret of her grudge against the self-proclaimed medium. With the sheriff eyeing her family and a ghost who's surprisingly tight-lipped, Everly must unravel decades-old secrets if she wants to clear her mother's name and help Davina cross into the light. But digging into Kitty's past reveals family skeletons better left buried. Between finding missing Baxter, solving Davina's murder, and uncovering what her mother's been hiding all these years, Everly's hands are fuller than a cemetery on Halloween night. After all, the dead may tell no tales-but family secrets have a way of refusing to stay buried.

Friends don't let friends go to jail. Everly Dupree's to-do list just got longer: clear her best friend's name, solve two murders, and send two ghosts into the light. All before happy hour. When Patrea Evergreen is arrested for murder, Everly leaps into action-as if being haunted by psychic Davina Benet's uncooperative ghost wasn't irritating enough. With zero suspects and even fewer clues, Everly hits a wall until town gossip Jober Peavey starts spreading the most ridiculous rumors Mooselick River has ever heard. But someone thought Jober should keep his mouth permanently shut-and now there's another body on the ground. As Everly digs deeper, she unravels a tangled web of secrets that reaches into the heart of her sleepy town. With Patrea's freedom hanging in the balance and two chatty ghosts demanding justice, Everly finds herself racing against a ticking clock. The closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous her investigation becomes. Now she must decide how far she's willing to go to save her friend-before she becomes the next victim in this deadly haunting season. When the dead won't rest and the living won't talk, sometimes the most dangerous thing in town isn't the ghost haunting you-it's the truth.