Alvina August

1969. Four strangers check in at the El Royale Hotel. The hotel is deserted, staffed by a single desk clerk. Some of the new guests' reasons for being there are less than innocent and some are not who they appear to be.

A young married couple buy a beautiful house on several acres of land, only to find out that the man they bought it from refuses to let go of the property.

Molly meets Josh, a widower who recently moved to town with his young son. At the same time she is charmed by a mysterious client of her bakery whom she's never met in person. In the end, he was the one and the same man.

An art dealer has a heart-attack and the wife finds him dead at their art gallery but after cremation the ashes reveal arsenic. Hailey Dean gets involved in the mystery.

A case is reopened into Hailey's fiancé's murder back in her college days. The disappearance of a fellow student working at the college paper may be connected to the murder.

Alicia and Arnold's marriage is picture perfect; however, Arnold is ready to grow their family, but Alicia is hesitant to the idea. Rather than facing the problem, Alicia sets her divorced parents each up on a blind date dating app.