Three friends purchase a historic hotel in Marietta, Ohio, and learn it was a stop on the Underground Railroad. When strange things begin happening at the inn, an old journal written by former slave and Underground Railroad "conductor", Prudence Willard, may shed light on the present-day mysteries at the inn.

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....

The Inn Crowd is plunged into another mystery when their contractor stumbles across a trunk containing an old, tattered quilt in one of the secret rooms that housed runaway slaves. Just moments earlier, they had learned that the famous River of Life quilt was stolen from the National Archives. Could this be the missing quilt? And how did it come to be at Wayfarers Inn? As Tess, Janice, and LuAnn set out to uncover the truth, they are shocked to...

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 Wayfarers Inn employee Winnie wins a baking competition, the Inn Crowd capitalizes on it by offering a free loaf of her award-winning bread to the first twelve guests to book a room at the inn. But when strange messages begin showing up inside the loaves of bread, the friends must figure out who would want to harm them or Winnie. Meanwhile, a demanding guest named Reena Newberry begins to wear on the Inn Crowd. Finding out what she wants from...

Spring has sprung at Wayfarers Inn, and Tess, LuAnn, and Janice are excited to host an Easter egg hunt extravaganza. Local businesses have chipped in, providing eggs loaded with all kinds of candy and prizes--coupons for services, free goodies, and even cash. Then there is the grand prize: a golden egg stuffed with three hundred dollars. But when the golden egg is found, it's empty! Tess is baffled--she knows the egg was filled with money when the...

When a framed print of Eliza from Uncle Tom's Cabin goes missing from Wayfarers Inn, LuAnn, Tess, and Janice are puzzled -- but when a first edition copy of the book is stolen from the Underground Railroad Museum the next day, they are alarmed. With two historic art dealers, a rare book collector, and a Harriet Beecher Stowe Museum employee (who is helping plan an event at the museum from the 170th anniversary of the book) all staying in town, the...