Dead to the World

Is Carrie Marie Hutchins father really dead? E.J. Pugh is about to come face-to-face with some strange and spooky goings-on in a small Texas town." E.J. has a surprise twentieth wedding anniversary present for Willis a weekend away in the Texas hills. She s found the perfect Bed and Breakfast the Bishop s Inn in the quaint town of Peaceful. Unfortunately, they ve barely arrived before the inn s troubled elderly owner, Carrie Marie Hutchins, confides in them about a harrowing event from her childhood involving her dead father . . . and his spirit, which won t go away . . . E.J. has little time to digest Carrie s tales of strange goings-on: screaming, the guests suitcases slashed, underwear hanging from a light fixture, before a further bizarre twist occurs: Humphrey Hammerschultz and Diamond Lovesy, self-proclaimed psychic detectives, suddenly turn up at Carrie s door. And when E.J. discovers a body, she determines to find out what s really going on in this not-so-peaceful town.