For June Faust, Treasury agent-turned-innkeeper, discovering the past is just a matter of research, but knowing the meaning of the past, well, that’s something altogether different. With their busiest year nearly in the books, she and the staff of The Admiral Inn have no time to slow down before a family reunion checks in, dragging with them an alternate history, a hidden agenda, and the key to unlocking the mansion’s secrets. After a decade of financial white-knuckling and on the brink of success, June’s ownership of the mansion itself is suddenly called into question. Adding that bitter morsel to the bustling holiday season, June finds herself caught in the strange stage play of a family reunion, stalked by the criminal mastermind from her last moonlighting case for her old agency, confused by the meddling of her former boss, and taunted by the ghost of Admiral Nilsen, himself. Always having been the cat in her former career, June has an eerie feeling she’s become the mouse. Now that her business is posting its first profits, her growing circle of family, friends, and even the townsfolk of Moorewicks Bay are depending on her for their livelihoods. Even if she can’t tidy up all the loose ends from the year, June needs to solve the most important case of her life - who owns The Admiral?