Chicky Starr, having transformed a decaying, Irish mansion into a bed and breakfast with the help of handyman Rigger and her niece, Orla, welcomes her first guests, who are all facing different challenges in life.
Marty and Allison Faulk move with their parents from Los Angeles to Fern Lake after their photographer father's very public run-in with the law, and are dismayed to realize there are dangers associated even with running a small-town bed-and-breakfast.
When sixteen-year-old Caro Torres goes to help her Tia Matilda at her bed-and-breakfast in Two Sands, California, she ends up also helping her aunt fend off the attempts of her ex-husband to buy the property and steal the treasures that are hidden there.
The new lodger in her father's bed and breakfast has sixteen-year-old Tiffany Hunter wondering what kind of sinister happenings are going on in the woods around Otter Lake.
Invited to join her aunt Winnie for a "How to Host a Murder" party on New Year's Eve at Winnie's new Cape Cod bed and breakfast, Elizabeth Parker must unearth old secrets and new motives in order to clear her beloved aunt of suspicion when the local wealthy miser ends up the unscripted victim.
Ashleigh Sneaux moves to an island in the Great Lakes where her newly divorced mom has purchased a bed-and-breakfast, and must learn to adapt to the cold weather, a much smaller school, and a completely unfamiliar dating scene.
When thirteen-year-old Sadie finds her mother's note saying she has to "get away for awhile, " Sadie is left to manage a bed and breakfast in the Welsh countryside by herself, while at the same time trying to cover her mother's absence.
