A Fatal Heirloom

Celie Dupree is ready for a little normalcy at The Bayou Bouffant, but peace is hard to find when your shop is a hub for the recently departed. Her newest distraction is Dr. Rhys Thorne, a handsome history buff researching local legends and rumored buried treasure. But Rhys is quickly thrown into suspicion when Barnaby Wilkes, a respected member of the local Historical Society, is found dead. Barnaby was secretly selling off the town's priceless artifacts on the black market—the very treasures Rhys was hunting. Celie's involvement deepens after a frantic client, Lorelei Tate, who knew too much, vanishes, leaving behind a crucial purse containing invoices that expose the historical theft. Detective Miles Corbin tries to keep Celie and her suspect boyfriend, Rhys, away from the case, but the murder hits too close to home for Celie's ghostly crew. The victim's killer is a distant relative of Major Beauregard, who has been stealing items from a hidden journal the Major left behind. Now, the grumpy Civil War soldier leads his spectral companions in a full-scale historical crusade. To clear Rhys's name and unmask the killer, Celie must rely on a tiny, muddy stain caught by the Housewife ghost to expose a long-hidden family betrayal that threatens to erase the town's history forever.