The grandparents are dead and one of them was murdered.When Gemma Leighton dropped out of high school and ran away from home at the age of sixteen, she swore she would never return to the small town she grew up in. Then again, Gemma never believed her grandmother Myrtle would make her the sole heir to the Bosworth estate including the crumbling mansion known as Merivale.Returning to her childhood home with its many secrets and eccentricities isn't going to be easy for Gemma. For one thing, her former nemesis, Thurgood Pruitt isn't at all happy about being cheated out of the inheritance that once belonged to him. For another, strange things are happening in the mansion. There's a talking raven, a practical joker, a self-cleaning kitchen, and a magic mirror that can show her anything happening in the mansion now or a hundred years in the past.Teaching the mansion how to behave itself gets tricky when her cousin Maddie shows up with her huge Newfoundland puppy. Things get even more complicated when her lusciously handsome lawyer, Chase Enright tells her they need to create an inventory of everything in the 149 room mansion. But none of that matters when she learns who murdered her grandfather and how he did it. Unfortunately, no one is going to believe a magic mirror.