This is no garden-variety murder.

Phoenix is focused on getting her B&B off the ground while ignoring the upcoming fall holidays—the first she’ll spend alone as her daughter globe-trots across Europe.

Solving a murder isn’t on her to-do list. But her plans change when she finds a dead body near an abandoned landscaping truck, apparently a Halloween prank gone terribly wrong. When her friend George rises to the top of the suspects list, Phoenix struggles to prove his innocence and save his business … and she learns that families aren’t just people who share DNA. They’re people who stick together like caramel on apples.

Will the killer remain as elusive as the last piece of candy corn on Halloween? Or can Phoenix root out the murderer before George loses everything … and she loses George?