A Reservation for Vanishing
(2026)(The first book in the Plum Blossom Inn Mystery series)
A novel by B I Skinner
Three lifelong friends book rooms in June Payne’s Plum Blossom Inn in Cañon City, Colorado to celebrate a sixtieth birthday. But when one of them vanishes, and everyone tells a different story, June and her friends take it upon themselves to investigate.
(The spinoff series from Cañon City's spring break road trip in The Steep Secret has arrived!)
June Payne has run the Plum Blossom Inn for nearly three decades, ever since she lost her husband Milo, and she prides herself on creating a sanctuary where every guest feels welcomed like family, from the moment they step through the door until they reluctantly depart.
June is charmed by Ray, the man whose birthday the friends are celebrating. He’s a warm, funny retired teacher turning sixty, and yet she senses something heavy about him. Then Ray is gone. He didn’t check out. His car sits in the parking lot, his phone charges on the nightstand, and a birthday gift waits unopened on the dresser.
As June and her friends Derrick from the Rivertop Pub and Stephanie down at the library, pull at the threads, a decades-old tragedy the three men experienced comes back to haunt them.
Genre: Mystery
(The spinoff series from Cañon City's spring break road trip in The Steep Secret has arrived!)
June Payne has run the Plum Blossom Inn for nearly three decades, ever since she lost her husband Milo, and she prides herself on creating a sanctuary where every guest feels welcomed like family, from the moment they step through the door until they reluctantly depart.
June is charmed by Ray, the man whose birthday the friends are celebrating. He’s a warm, funny retired teacher turning sixty, and yet she senses something heavy about him. Then Ray is gone. He didn’t check out. His car sits in the parking lot, his phone charges on the nightstand, and a birthday gift waits unopened on the dresser.
As June and her friends Derrick from the Rivertop Pub and Stephanie down at the library, pull at the threads, a decades-old tragedy the three men experienced comes back to haunt them.
Genre: Mystery