Ellie has arrived with her cousin Marsha at the Wayfarer's Inn. During their stay, Thorn proposes to his ex-wife, Beverly, prompting Ellie to offer to plan their wedding, though LuAnn ends up shouldering most of the burden. Ellie and Marsha bicker constantly, until Marsha vanishes, leaving the ladies of the inn to find her and the secret behind the cousins' bizarre behavior.

When Wayfarers Inn employee Winnie wins a baking competition, the Inn Crowd capitalizes on it by offering a free loaf of her award-winning bread to the first twelve guests to book a room at the inn. But when strange messages begin showing up inside the loaves of bread, the friends must figure out who would want to harm them or Winnie. Meanwhile, a demanding guest named Reena Newberry begins to wear on the Inn Crowd. Finding out what she wants from...

When an unexpected guest arraives at Wayfarers Inn, claiming not to remember anything about his past, Tess and her friends are intrigues and slightly suspicious. Meanwhile, the Inn Crowd plans for their first-ever Easter egg hunt and they discover a more likebale side to their news nemesis, Karl Mannus, when he stays at the inn with his wife. However, Karl starts chasing down a story that could shatter a venerable Marietta family.

Janice, Tess, and LuAnn are struggling to turn a Ohio mansion, which had served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, into a bed and breakfast. These plans are halted when Janice discovers skeletal human remains, along side an antique photo of a woman and child, inside the mansion.

Marla surprised everyone at Wayfarers Inn when she announced her engagement, despite the red flags that her friend Janice sees. While clearing out the church belfry in anticipation of the wedding, Janice, Tess, and LuAnn find an old Bible from Marla's ancestor, famed abolitionist William Still. That night, a suspicious fire breaks out in the bell tower, leading the friends to ponder if someone was trying to spoil Marla's wedding plans or trying to...

The Inn Crowd is plunged into another mystery when their contractor stumbles across a truck containing an old, tattered quilt in one of the secret rooms that housed runaway slaves; a quilt the matches the description of the River of Life quilt recently stolen from the National Archives.