About This Book
Trixie Collier Blake is sure the worst is behind her now. Trixie's Treasures is doing well, and the tunnels have given up their secrets. There is every hope and expectation that Dee's pregnancy won't end in the same tragedy her previous one did. Trixie's father Clark has met someone special. Stephanie Wallace's dance studio is attracting students, and she and Trixie have become good friends. Danny Jefferson still works for Martin's Market but has a nice little candid photography business on the side. And Mitch has told Trixie up front that he's ready to love again-and hopes she'll think about being ready, too. But then her mother, Lucy Lloyd, announces she is moving back to Dreamland to start a bed and breakfast in John Quimby Lloyd's old home. On top of that, city councilwoman Daphne Carter sails into Trixie's shop and announces that her son is going to lease the adjoining building and wants to cut an access door through to the third floor. She already has an 'artist-in-residence' lined up to live there. Hetty Green gives Trixie the low-down on Daphne, who went to school with Lucy, and also her son the one-time high school golden boy. Once more Trixie digs in her heels and refuses to even consider Daphne's proposal. Candace King is determined to attract tourists with ghost tours of the tunnels and other places around town, but she has to settle for a video tour when the health department declares the air quality unacceptable. She also brings in a team of paranormals, and what they hear one night is especially chilling when Lucy Lloyd's body is discovered in her hotel room the next morning. Nothing points to the cause of death except she looks like she's been literally scared to death. Dreamland has a new police chief, Hank Austin, who manages to score negative points with Trixie from the beginning. She has to admit, though, that he listens to her when she becomes a target yet again. Sean Mercer comes back to dig up more dirt. Mitch is enlisted in an undercover investigation. And Trixie finds herself on the edge of becoming one more notch on the belt of someone out for revenge stretching two generations back.
