Tess is still grieving the loss of her husband, but might find a way for her heart to move on in a Mariette charming newcomer. Winnie discovers a Civil-War era recipe for soup and makes it for the guests at the Wayfarers Inn, but the first person to taste the soup becomes violently ill.

Marla surprised everyone at Wayfarers Inn when she annouced her engagement, despite the red flags that her friend Janice sees. While clearing out the church bellfry in anticipation of the wedding, Janice, Tess, and LuAnn find an old Bible from Marla's ancestor, famed abolitionist William Still. That night, a suspicious fire breaks out in the bell tower, leading the friends to ponder if someone was trying to spoil Marla's wedding plans or trying to...

"It’s Christmastime in Marietta, and at Wayfarers Inn the season is in full swing. When the final touches of LuAnn Sherrill’s decorations blow a fuse, she and Realtor Brad Grimes look for a way not to overload the circuits—or sacrifice any of her hard work. But after an antique mirror crashes to the floor in one of the guest rooms, their mission is temporarily forgotten as they try to figure out what caused it to fall. As more...

Moses Willard, the great-great grandson of original owners of the house now turned into Wayfarers Inn, has come with his family to visit the inn. However, Moses has been receiving anonymous notes suggesting that someone is holding the Willard family treasure for ransom. At the same time, inn co-owner Tess has had a falling out with her grown daughter Lizzie and it's up to her friends, LuAnn and Janice, to help patch things up between the two.

The Wayfarer Inn is hosting the debut for a traveling theater company, but acts of sabotage soon derail the production. Meanwhile, Harry gives the inn a box of old books from his antique shop that includes a battered fragment of an antique script. A clue on the cover makes the Inn Crowd wonder if it has something to do with the inn's role as a station on the Underground Railroad.

When an unexpected guest arraives at Wayfarers Inn, claiming not to remember anything about his past, Tess and her friends are intrigues and slightly suspicious. Meanwhile, the Inn Crowd plans for their first-ever Easter egg hunt and they discover a more likebale side to their news nemesis, Karl Mannus, when he stays at the inn with his wife. However, Karl starts chasing down a story that could shatter a venerable Marietta family.

LuAnn Sherrill has just started as chair of the Marietta Christmas-in-History tour but is already overwhelmed by the demands of Fern McPherson. Things are further complicated when one of Luann's former students comes to town to visit her sister Michele, who is immediately carried off to the hospital unconscious. LuAnn and her friends at the Wayfarers Inn must make sense of the cryptic notes in Michele's notebook and solve a possible crime before Christmas....

On the Fourth of July, Tess and her friends find a myserious brooch at the Wayfarers Inn. When Tess takes it to a jeweler for appraisal, it is stolen before he can find a clue about its origins. As the Inn crowd digs into the mystery, they learn that among their current guests are the descendants of a man suspected, one hundred and fifty years ago, of stealing this same brooch.

When a tour group checks into the Wayfarers Inn, LuAnn feels she has met one of them before. He seems to recognize her too, but denies knowing her Meanwhile, LuAnn has finally decided to go through her deceased mother's things and there she finds some surprising clues to who the mystery guest might be.

The Sherlock Society is having a convention at the Wayfarers Inn when a donation for the Underground Railroad Museum goes missing. The Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts on are the case and soon discover clues that tie the theft to an Arthur Conan Doyle mystery.