Amy Shannon's Short Story Collection Series

Ballston Spa is a small village in the middle of Saratoga County, and it is rich in history, including its ghost stories. Dorothy Wellington has a gift, a gift that sometimes she believes is a curse. She can hear dead people. They talk to her and she talks back to them. Her family has a very long, generational home that is placed in the Ballston Spa Village Cemetery. Her 103-year-old father summons her back home, a trip she dreads, but then feels at home once she walks up those steps again. Her father needs a favor, more than one. First and foremost, help her newfound great-nephew Samuel with his gifts, and solve a two hundred-year-old missing persons case. Are these gifts and her knowledge as a historian, a foremost in her field, enough to figure out what happened to a young mother and her four-year-old daughter?

A mistake that could cost Marva her life, she lands in a dark place where they are just merchandise. The merchandise were once women, who no one would miss or realize was gone. They were "merch" with no value, no worth until they were auctioned off. A ring of human traffickers, where only some know who the next person up in the chain is. Marva was taken. She was not on the list, but only in the wrong place at the wrong time. Her wife, Millie, knows she is missing and will do whatever she can to find her. After talking with her friend who works tech in the FBI, she learns about the horrors that her wife could be going through. Anyone and everyone is a suspect, especially after an undercover agent is also a piece of merchandise.