A pretty black cat with a proclivity toward kleptomania, a Halloween festival with small town charm, a missing teenager and the secret she'd been hiding, and the cold case murder that only Bexley and her friends will be able to solve. Bexley Cosgrove has a soft spot for abandoned animals after being abandoned herself as a young child. She knows she owes her life to the dog who found and rescued her, so as an adult, Bexley has committed her life to rescuing as many dogs and cats as possible.

In book 2 of the new series, small items from the Gooseberry Bay adoption center seem to keep turning up missing. After a bit of investigation, security cameras reveal that a black cat seems to be sneaking in at night to take whatever items might catch his eye. Bexley and her team are stumped as to his means of getting into the store, so Bexley comes up with a plan to track him down. She eventually determines that the cat is living on the street and has in fact built himself a nest which he has filled with various items stolen from businesses in the area. Once of the items Bexley finds in the cat's nest is a bracelet that was last seen on the arm of a teen who went missing more than three weeks prior, and another item found in the nest will provide a new clue in a very old murder case.