This is book 7 in the Hope Herring paranormal cozy mystery series by USA Today Bestselling Author J A Whiting and Nell McCarthy. After a visit back to Ohio, Hope Herring and her teen daughter Cori settle back into their routines in Castle Park, North Carolina. Warned by an Ohio detective about the dangers of looking into her husband's death, Hope takes a break from reading the files he left behind. When a city councilman dies unexpectedly, Hope is drawn into the case while at the same time, she searches for answers to the house ghost Max's hundred-year-old murder. Will Hope's investigating place her on a dangerous path that leads her to a killer?