When the customers that purchased rare volumes of Edgar Allan Poe's complete works begin dying, bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure calls upon her resident ghost and P.I. Jack Shepard for help when the police rule the deaths as accidental.

"Forty-nine-year old widow Ruby Hudson, former First Lady of the United States of America, wants to start the second act of her life by moving to Shipwreck Key off the Florida Panhandle. As she mourns the loss of her beloved husband, she turns her lifelong love of books into a whole new career, opening a little bookshop on the charming, pirate-themed island. Her daughters think she's crazy, but Ruby can finally breathe again without the constant scrutiny...

"When a woman needs to flee a bad marriage, it doesn't matter that she's the wife of the former Vice President, it only matters that she escapes...Sunday Bond longs for a life far from Washington D.C., and far from the husband who has kept her in a gilded cage for too long, locked up there with only his dark secrets to keep her company. When Sunday';s best friend, the former First Lady, moves south to Shipwreck Key, Sunday goes for a visit and decides...