When a silver sleigh recently stolen from a local museum turns up in her thrift shop, paranormal sleuth Lori Shepherd is surprised by the curator's lack of interest in the theft, a situation that prompts Lori to turn to Aunt Dimity for otherworldly advice on how to track down the sleigh's true owner.

Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been arrested for murdering her Danish fiance, escapes police custody. Meanwhile, someone tries to abduct Natasha's eight-year-old daughter from a Red Cross center. Nurse Nina Borg has been following Natasha's case for several years and just can't see the young mother as a vicious killer. But in her effort to protect Natasha's daughter and find the truth, Nina realizes there is much she doesn't know about...

"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...