Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, Scrabble champion, and guy-with-worst-luck-in-the-world-when-it-comes-to-dating, is ready to make a change. So when he learns he's inherited both a failing bookshop and a falling-down mansion in the quaint seaside village of Pirate's Cove in Rhode Island, it's full steam ahead!
Sure enough, the village is charming, its residents amusingly eccentric, and police chief Jack Carson is decidedly yummy (though possibly as straight as he is stern). However, the bookstore
is
failing, the mansion
falling down, and there's that little drawback of finding rival bookseller--and head of the unwelcoming-committee--Trevor Maples
dead
during the annual Buccaneer Days celebration.