Locals in the English coastal town of Blackpool

don''t take kindly to strangers, but newcomers Michael and Molly Graham have managed to make a few good friends. Dylan Stewart has encouraged them to join him and go native during the town''s annual Seafaring Days celebrations.

The event and the mystery

The event makes for lively crowds, colorful costumes–and a perfect cover for murder. Troublemaker Willie Myners is found stabbed in his boat and the police''s main suspect is Dylan himself. Michael and Molly can''t help but be pulled into the mystery–and deeper into the dark history of Blackpool.

The dark history of Blackpool

Amid whispers of cursed sixteenth-century coins and gypsy gold, what they discover is something far more sinister than the revenge of a jealous husband. And much more dangerous.