She's none too keen on her assignment or her charge -- the aloof and arrogant Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming -- but the last place she expects to accompany him is to a séance. Self-proclaimed medium Velda Dunbar -- new to the village of Pipley -- has drawn fascination and skepticism after a very public channeling of a doomed seaman aboard the HMS Bartholomew, which she claims has sunk. Fleming remains tight-lipped about his reason for attending her séance, but his arrival with Olive raises eyebrows as she is still maintaining the ruse of dating Captain Jameson Aldridge. When murder occurs before her very eyes, Olive must trust her own instincts and not rule out anyone as a suspect -- including the secretive Fleming -- for one of them is harboring a hidden deadly agenda.