A family, gathering for their matriarch’s 80th birthday in her crumbling, gothic house on a tiny island begin disappearing one by one.

When she makes a cross-country trip with her ex-husband Nick, divorce attorney Harper James, who is engaged to another man, cannot deny the feelings that still linger between them and wonders if they can get it right this time.

"Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone investigates the murder of a young woman and the kidnapping of a young man from a wealthy family, only to find connections to his own troubled past"-- Provided by publisher.

When their son Jacob, who died tragically at his eighth birthday party in 1966, arrives on their doorstep, still eight years old, Harold and Lucille Hargrave must navigate a strange new reality as chaos erupts around the world as people's loved ones are returned from beyond.

John Baxter attempts to fulfill his wife's dying wish to find their firstborn son, actor Dayne Matthews embarks on a personal search for truth, and theater director Katy Hart makes a decision that may completely transform her life.

"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"-- Ernie...

Organizing a library artifact exhibit for her college class' 40th reunion, Lucy and her friends discover the body of an unpopular director and are challenged to identify a killer among a long list of suspects.

Galena, Illinois, police chief Krista Lawson investigates when one of her classmates is murdered at their tenth high school reunion, after discovering that another woman from their class has already been killed.