Publisher's Synopsis
Magic muffins, mysterious lightning, and a missing murder victim (who's technically still alive)...just another Tuesday night in Washingtonville for ghost whisperer, Poppy Wentworth.
Suspended from her job at the coroner's office, dealing with her mother and Aunt Flora's potion-making fiascoes (the latest of which have turned her father into an opera-singing, Italian-speaking Colonel Sanders look-alike with a bizarre inability to say words starting with the letter "J"), and bracing for the high school reunion from hell, Poppy's bad luck isn't showing any signs of improvement...and it's about to take a drunken stumble into more murder, magic, and mayhem. When Presidential Trivia Night at Taft's Drafts ends with Poppy discovering the body of the bar's owner, Logan Randolph - only for him to later stroll into the crime scene very much alive - she knows something supernatural is afoot. With ties to a computer gaming empire set in a magical universe that may be more fact than fiction, Logan Randolph is now the prime suspect...in his own murder. As Poppy digs deeper, she finds herself tangled in a web of town secrets, enchanted objects, and a computer game that might hold more than just pixels and code. As if things weren't complicated enough, her love life is still...well, complicated. Dr. Andy Baxter, her dependable boss-turned-boyfriend, is pushing for more commitment despite the fact they still haven't...you know. Meanwhile, her sexy ex, Detective Eric Costello, is dating the maddeningly perfect Dr. Ivy Dalton (and they've definitely...you know). With ghost pets wreaking havoc, two black eyes and a possible concussion (or three), an unfortunate wardrobe malfunction, and a mystery that refuses to stay dead, Poppy must trust her instincts (and a little magic) to uncover the truth before the past comes back to haunt them all.
