Trouble is brewing on Daybreak Island. . .Summer is in full swing on Daybreak Island, and JJ's House of Purrs-and the new mobile cat cafe-has Maddie James running nonstop with on-site cat parties.So when Olivia McAllister, her mother's childhood best friend, returns to the island for the first time in decades-after a family tragedy drove her away-and asks Maddie to plan a birthday party for her granddaughter, Maddie happily agrees. It's been forty years since Olivia's aunt, Delia McAllister, vanished without a trace. Her disappearance was never solved, and the abandoned family house has loomed over the island ever since.But when Maddie and her mom arrive at Delia's old house, it's empty-except for a white-and-gray cat that leads Maddie to a hidden room. There, she finds Olivia dead.Soon Maddie learns the mysterious cat may be tied to a ghostly island legend. And as she digs deeper, she realizes she's unraveling two disappearances, forty years apart-while someone is desperate to keep the truth buried.
