When Priscilla runs into long-time friend Kitty Merrick, mystery starts to unfold. Kitty has just arrived on Martha’s Vineyard to check on her Aunt Katherine, who has stopped responding to her attempts at communication. Priscilla accompanies Kitty to the town hall, where they learn that Katherine has died. But Kitty isn’t convinced that’s truly the case, and she and Priscilla set out to learn what has actually become of her aunt.

Priscilla suspects there is more to a mysterious stranger than he is letting on when he starts asking questions about the missing Katherine. Meanwhile, Miss Caroline Waterman, Katherine’s best friend and former-socialite-turned-recluse, has announced she is selling acres of prime real estate— and a valuable private museum collection she’s gathered over the years. Will Priscilla be able to uncover the truth behind all these secrets and bring about the reunion—or the closure—her friend needs?

It’s Christmastime in Martha’s Vineyard, and Priscilla wants to find the perfect gifts for her friends and family. When she and Joan are browsing in a local art store, a man arrives who seems to know Joan, and she is clearly smitten with him. Despite her cousin’s assurances that Calvin Gallico is simply a friendly, reputable business man, something just doesn’t sit well with Priscilla. Why has Joan never mentinoned him? Could she possibly be falling head-over-heels for the man after only a brief acquaintance?

As the days draw claoser to Christmas, Priscilla finds other reasons not to trust Calvin. But can Priscilla protect Joan without severing her close relationship with her cousin- or pushing her farther into Calvin’s arms?

Also published as Carol of the Ship’s Bells.

Priscilla and Gerald’s preparations for their upcoming nuptials are interrupted when Gerald’s heirloom eighteenth-century ship’s figurehead is stolen from the East Shore Historical Museum. While the police try to track down the culprit, elderly Alzheimer’s patient Tom Campbell claims he knows how it was done, but he doesn’t remember who did it or when. It soon appears, however, that the thief would rather get rid of the old man than have him remember too much. Can Priscilla find the figurehead and the thief before Tom is silenced forever?

Meahwhile, when Gerald’s grandson surprises him with a puppy, Gerald wants to keep little Matey at Priscilla’s house until Gerald and Priscilla’s wedding. But with everything else going on in Priscialla’s life, this latest added burden makes her wonder – is she really ready to give up her independence and get married again?

This is a Christmas edition of Water Flows Uphill.