Jo Bellamy has seen ghosts her whole life. She's never been impressed.

When her grandmother's will sends her from Atlanta to a crumbling Victorian B&B in St. Augustine, Jo expects a quick renovation, a quicker sale, and a fresh start after a divorce that left her with nothing but competence and a lawyer's number. What she gets instead is five permanent ghost residents, a chef who hasn't had a raise in twenty years, and a city where the dead outnumber the living and have opinions about everything.

Addie, the matriarch who built the house with her own hands and will fight you about the curtains.

Tomás, a 16th-century soldier-poet who has been composing verse he can never write down for 455 years.

Preston, a Gilded Age gentleman with a Flagler obsession and a mask that slips when he's not careful.

Ravenna, a poltergeist who levitates the breakfast silver and insists her name is not Dorothy.

Ned, the nice guy from Georgia who died of heat stroke and is aggressively fine about it.

Then a man dies on a bayfront bench with a needle in his arm, and the police close the case before lunch. But Jo's ghosts saw what happened. And the dead don't forget the people the living choose to ignore. Now Jo is running a murder investigation out of a B&B with no guests, five difficult dead roommates, and the organizational skills of a woman who once managed a bride whose centerpieces changed four times. The ghosts have the witnesses. A sympathetic cop has the badge. Jo has the spreadsheets.

The people who killed Leroy Sykes are counting on nobody caring. They picked the wrong street, the wrong city, and the wrong woman.

Inn Good Spirits is the first book in the Spirit Boarding series — a cozy supernatural mystery with a Gen X heroine, a found family that happens to be mostly dead, and a voice that will make you laugh on one page and quietly wreck you on the next.