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Jake Tiptree expects trouble from her rambling fixer-upper, not from the dead man she finds in her storeroom. When her friend Ellie confesses, Jake starts digging through Eastport's history to prove she is protecting the real killer.

Kenny Mumford washes up on the beach looking drowned, until the bullet hole says otherwise. As more bodies follow, Jake and Ellie find Eastport's quiet surface cracking fast.

When hated hometown bully Reuben Tate is found with his throat slit on the cemetery gate, evidence points to Jake's former husband. Jake and Ellie have to sort through Eastport grudges before the violence gets even worse.

A charming stranger arrives at Jake's door chasing a cursed violin tied to her old house, then vanishes without a trace. Soon Jake is digging into Eastport history before another disappearance turns deadly.

Just before Christmas, Jake finds Faye Anne Carmody covered in blood and her hated husband missing, then dead in butcher paper. The case looks simple, until another death shows Eastport's holiday trouble runs much deeper.

After a bad fall leaves Jake dizzy and off balance, her nosy neighbor Harriet vanishes and later turns up dead behind a wall. With sabotage threatening her family, Jake has to decide whether her fears are confusion or murder.

While restoring old Harlequin House, Jake and Ellie uncover a hidden room with a flapper-era skeleton, then a freshly poisoned corpse. When suspicion falls on Ellie's husband George, the women have to untangle past and present crimes.

Jake hires intense housekeeper Bella Diamond so she can focus on summer repairs, then learns Bella is getting death threats. When Jake's prime suspect ends up dead, her peaceful Fourth of July plans disappear.

Jake and Ellie buy a beachfront fixer-upper, only to rent it to a coven of would-be witches. After Jake finds a preacher-thief shot on her property and a girl vanishes, buried secrets under her own house start to matter.

Jake is still battling her crumbling 1823 house when her dead ex-husband seems to haunt it and a friend flees hired killers. A missing young man and a grisly barn discovery pull Jake into another dangerous mess.

Renovations uncover an old book beneath Jake's house, with her name written in blood. What starts as a creepy find opens into a bigger mystery of Eastport history, hidden connections, and another carefully planned murder.

As the man accused of killing Jake's mother disappears before trial, Jake's oldest trauma rushes back. When her best friend's infant daughter goes missing, past and present fold into one deeply personal case.

A true-crime writer comes to Eastport to reopen interest in the old Dodd murders and instantly angers the town. Jake gets pulled into the cold case, where long-buried secrets are not nearly as settled as people hoped.

While repainting her porch, Jake notices a young man stalking past her house and hinting at old blood. Anonymous warnings and a photo of a murdered man push Eastport toward a dangerous Fourth of July.

Jake and Ellie head to a rough woods cottage so Jake can finish building a porch. But an escaped killer Jake once testified against is watching, and he plans to trap both women far from help.

A violent storm closes in on Eastport as several desperate lives start colliding. Sam's friend becomes a murder suspect, a teenager plots escape, and newcomer Lizzie Snow arrives searching for a missing child.