melissa ransom

Meet Stacy Cisco, owner of All Spirit Bookstore in Rano, South Carolina. After losing her parents in a car crash and gaining a generous inheritance from them, Stacy pursued her one true passion. She left her career as a Financial Data Analytics Manager and opened her bookstore for spiritual, but not religious people in her hometown.

But when Stacy finds her young employee, Candice, strangled to death the day after the bookstore grand opening, she is devastated. Candice was just starting college while also discovering her own spiritual path after growing up in a fundamentalist church.

The evidence points to Candice's current boyfriend, John, as the murderer but Stacy does not agree that he did it. Determined to expose the truth, Stacy begins her own investigation which lead her to an abusive ex-boyfriend, angry family members, and church members with scandalous secrets. Can Stacy figure out who killed Candice so she can get serious about developing a relationship with her former high school best friend, Marques?