Spending the holidays with Mallory Pope has given Detective Lieutenant TJ Locke a new outlook on life. He's let go of the past and looks forward to his future. However, his perfect idyll with Mallory is interrupted on the night of the Winter Festival Fundraiser, when a reveler is found lying on the rocks under the seawall.Mrs. Bunny Harrowdale, one of the wealthiest women in Nannaquonset, had few enemies. However, strange things had been happening on her estate and she swore the place was haunted.When TJ begins his investigation, he has no reason to believe in ghosts. Harrowdale's children are convinced their late father is trying to stop their mother's estate from allowing Re-HOME of Nannaquonset to inherit twenty million dollars. TJ is convinced the son and daughter are suspects one and two. A nephew from out-of-town—number three.Mallory can speak to the dead, but it seems the ghost of Bunny's husband Denton Harrowdale isn't talking. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and when the photographers upload their files from the event—TJ thinks the killer is standing right next to Bunny.Problem is it's Denton Harrowdale.