In book 28 in the series, Abby finally has a moment to sit down with the manuscripts her friend Gayla left to her in her will and realizes that the murder Gayla wrote about in her stories might actually be a fictional accounting of the real unsolved murder that were still baffling police a decade after it was a front page story in the local news. The murder occurred when Abby was still living in San Francisco and it seems likely that Gayla had been witnessed to this high profile murder the way Roxy, the protagonist in her book, had been witness to a very similar murder in the story, but the more times Abby reads the script, the more certain she is that a fictional accounting of a very real experience might be exactly what she's looking at.
Meanwhile, Mylie and Jeremy are settling in as new parents, Georgia is still trying to come to grips with the ins and outs of the decision she made at Danny's welcome to the family party, and Abby makes a proposition to Bailey that could very well change both of their lives.