Everly Dupree is having a bad day. The kick you in the teeth, set your pants on fire, make you question everything kind of bad day.
At the end of it, her marriage is over, she's essentially homeless, and finds herself in a moving van headed back to her hometown of Mooselick River, Maine.
At least, she tells herself, things can't get any worse.
But, of course, they can. The next thing she knows, Everly's staying at the Bide-A-Way motel with a deadline of a week to get her life in order, and it isn't looking good.
Enter Martha Tipton, who offers Everly the chance to buy the town's haunted house for the ridiculously low amount owed in back taxes. Everly signs on the dotted line, but before she can move into her new place, the dead body of Hudson Montayne, her high-school sweetheart, turns up in the next motel room.
Just when Everly thinks she's won the grand prize in the bad luck sweepstakes, her life takes a turn into the paranormal.
Hudson's ghost comes haunting, and since she is the only one who can see him, refuses to leave until Everly solves the mystery of his death.
Will Everly bring a killer to justice? Or will the end of her story read, and she lived Haunted Everly After?
If you like plucky heroines, lovable characters, and ghost mysteries set in Maine, you'll love this cozy, paranormal series. This is a full-length psychic cozy mystery novel.