Ellie Gooden, former marketing exec turned coffee shop owner, is starting a new life in small-town Wisconsin after the brutal murder of her parents. But just a week before her grand opening, she discovers the body of her shop’s former owner, Artie Cullen, tied to a chair in her kitchen, tarred and feathered, with a knife sticking out of his chest. Haunted by the dead man’s angry spirit, and finding herself at the top of the suspect list, Ellie must find Artie’s killer or watch her new life go up in smoke.