Alexa “Lucky Lexie” Lincoln has always had a nose for news and a knack for being first on the scene whenever there’s a big story. Now that she’s editing the local paper in Stirling Mills, Texas, she’s not just reporting the news. She’s making it as she digs into cases the police can’t handle, since she’s getting her hot tips from beyond the grave.
When she finds the editor dead on the newsroom floor before her job interview, Lexie Lincoln finds herself caught up in a murder investigation. Now she has to solve the case to clear her name, but she’s got help—from an editor who died decades before but who still has her finger on the pulse of the town.
Thieves are breaking into local homes, stealing cheap costume jewelry and stirring up paranoia. When a ghost suggests that the jewelry may be more valuable than anyone realizes, Lexie finds herself delving into forgotten chapters of the town’s strange history.
When a fisherman spots a car in the river, it’s the most exciting news during a slow week in Stirling Mills, and newspaper editor Lexie Lincoln is there to cover it. The cops think it was an accident, but a ghost on the scene tells Lexie the drowned driver got what he deserved for cheating her out of her land.
When a source doesn’t show up for an interview and doesn’t answer her phone, Lexie feels certain there’s something wrong. Sure of her instincts, Lexie sets out to learn more about the woman and what might have happened to her. The plot thickens when the woman’s car is found abandoned. Now Lexie knows she didn’t imagine the visitor, but where is she, and what happened to her?
The grand-opening party at a new bed-and-breakfast in a vintage farmhouse that’s supposedly haunted poses quite the dilemma for Lexie Lincoln.
An investigation into a failed bridge results in a dead engineer, found inside his locked home. Was it suicide, or could it have been murder. If it’s murder, it means a killer who can get in and out of locked doors, so no one is safe.
The Secret Santa, an information vigilante who seems to have access to the Naughty list and who is sharing that information, may put a damper on the holiday season. Busting Santa might put Lexie Lincoln on the Naughty list, but she feels she has to save the holiday celebration before the bad vibe drives the tourists away – and before her own secrets are revealed.