Sunny Coolidge left her New York City newspaper job to go back to Maine and take care of her ailing father. But thereâs not much excitementâor interesting workâin Kittery Harbor. So when Ada Spruance, the townâs elderly cat lady, asks for help finding her supposedly-winning lottery ticket, Sunny agrees. But when she arrives at Adaâs, with a stray tomcat named Shadow tagging along, they discover the poor woman dead at the bottom of her stairs. Was it an accidentâor did Adaâs death have to do with that missing lottery ticket, which turns out to be worth six million dollars?
Town Constable Will Price suspects the worst. And Sunnyâs reporter instincts soon drive her to do some investigating of her own. Even Shadow seems to have a nose for detective work. Following the trail of the purrloined ticket, Sunny and Shadow try to shed some light on a killerâs dark motivesâbefore their own numbers are upâĻ